Word: stealingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with the thoroughness of a Baedeker and the sincerity of a presentation designed to steal an agency friend's soapflake account.His observations should perhaps be taken with a good deal of salt, but they will form a basis for discussion during the long winter ahead...
...only in small, centralized plants, or question the whole idea of mixing business and religion. Many thoughtful churchmen also have reservations. They fear that too much time can be devoted to public relations, morale and production-boosting projects having little to do with religion; others worry that industrial chaplains steal away parishioners from established local pastors. But by far the biggest complaint comes from union leaders, who fear that management will use religion as a weapon against labor and to talk down justified complaints and demands. Said the Protestant Christian Century: "The first danger in a company-paid chaplaincy...
Unfair Advantage. In London, after being fined ?5 ($14) for stealing from a self-service store, Mrs. May Hampton, 43, complained indignantly in court: "The public should be protected from this kind of shop; you can go in and steal anything and no one is the wiser...
...Rhubarb sprouted again over the umpire's decision in the 1955 World Series opener when Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson was called safe on a steal of home. Infielder Frank Kellert, who was at bat for the Dodgers at the time and in the best position to see the play, belatedly declared that Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra had tagged Robinson out. Kellert's delayed announcement was made after the Dodgers traded him to the Chicago Cubs...
...bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake to the Columbia River near present-day Pasco, Wash. Harassed by squat, fish-eating Indians, who tried to steal their possessions, they navigated the Columbia's treacherous rapids and passed through the Cascades...