Word: spending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Capote never received a rejection slip. He peddled his first story to Storybook magazine when he was seventeen, "and I've sold everything since. Of course, I'm not very prolific. I've only written a total of twenty stories in all, and I spend up to five months on one short story. If it were rejected then, that would really be a disaster...
...development and procurement funds over the next few years into B-58s and liquid-fuel ICBMs that will become obsolete as the Minuteman system builds up? Why not divert some of that money into speeding up Minuteman? With that idea in mind, the Air Force wants to spend more than ten times as much on Minuteman in 1960 as it is spending this year-$250 million v. $22 million. B58 procurement will probably slow down; the Titan program may shrink drastically...
...valedictorian of her class and president of the students' committee at Tokyo's University of the Sacred Heart (though she is not a Roman Catholic). She wrote her thesis on The Forsyte Saga, insisted on typing every one of the 100 pages herself rather than spend any of her meager ($2.78 a month) allowance on a typist. As recently as last summer, she wrote her mother: "I do not believe commoners should be united with the imperial family...
...thirds of Mexico's population of nearly 33 million-is made up of slimly nourished Indians, peons and drifters who barely manage to stay alive on beans and tortillas, who wear huaraches or go barefoot, who live in Mexico's 2,000,000 adobe hovels, who never spend more than a few pesos from the time they are born until they die. The upper class, socially defined, consists of between 300 and 500 families who are the remnants of the old Spanish hacienda-owning aristocracy. Across the gulf between rich and poor stretches the growing middle class...
...member on the bottom rung of the new middle class stirs all across Mexico. In Portales, a section of Mexico City, one such family lives over the garage behind a big house. The father is caretaker for his landlord. The Indian mother and all the family-except one-spend their days squatting on a curbstone around an open charcoal brazier, making and selling tacos (tortillas rolled around fillings of beans, meat or chicken). The exception is a teen-age daughter, who wears nylons and goes to a commercial school-her way into the middle class paid for by her family...