Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will fall on those who especially relished a Babylon that looked like a New Orleans nightclub or a celestial throne that resembled a Negro lawyer's office in a Louisiana town. Said the spokesman: "There has been special emphasis in the physical production to point up the timelessness of the story-the fable aspect rather than any specific place or period...
...Common sense shows that a slight danger may be risked, even if the only good that results is pleasure or relaxation (e.g., horseback riding is permissible, although there is a remote possibility that the rider may be thrown and killed). Therefore, moderate cigarette smoking is not sinful, unless for special reasons a doctor forbids it, while immoderate smoking...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
...releases, sent out under the letterheads of the "Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors" and the Pennsylvania State Grange, attacking the bill to raise the weight limit. Byoir edited anti-truck speeches for the P.S.A.T.S.'s secretary, claimed credit for working with the Grange "to set up a special program to contact senators in doubtful counties...
...novel in three installments last year. At the time, the world jumped with astonishment: a Russian novelist had not only written critically of the Soviet regime, but had done so bluntly, sarcastically, rudely. With Poland and Hungary threatening to tip the boat, Not by Bread Alone had a special menace because 1) it roused wild excitement among both intellectuals and ordinary citizens in Russia, 2) its blows against the order established by Stalin went a lot farther and deeper than even Khrushchev desired...