Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power in a country where, according to French sources, 500 people out of a total population of 19 million receive 15 per cent of the national income. With no colonial exploitation, there has still been enough rice left over to provide the rest of the population with a living standard above that of most of their Asian neighbors. As a result, the peasants have been relatively indifferent to Communist agitation...
...Kansas Runner Wes Santee. Fastest miler in U.S. history (4:00.5), Wes was out to make his way from his speed on the track-and he cared not who knew what he was doing. Rarely did his expense accounts contain the creative writing and fantastic arithmetic of the standard swindle sheet. When Wes bulldozed track meet promoters into paying him far more than amateur rules permit, he usually listed the extra payments openly in his accounting for the Amateur Athletic Union. Said he: "These expense rules are for Joe Blows. I'm no Joe Blow . . . I had no other...
...reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns, now a farmers' market . . . but it was a world." To this world Cam brings not the ex-G.I. gripes of his bindlestiff buddies but pioneering grit...
John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, said last night that some proponents for the addition to Andover Chapel consider Horton's plans to represent merely a modern art version of the standard cross. "But it is more than a cross," Dillenberger said. "At any rate, it was meant to be a crucifix, although it is quite untraditional...
...speeches with quips like: "The Republicans have been in office for twenty months--or long enough to elect Maine's first Democratic governor in twenty years." There is also Mr. Stevenson's less famous but equally impressive facility with the serious metaphor, which allows him to describe the sub-standard, depressed areas of the American economy as "stagnant pools into which the tide of prosperity has failed to flow...