Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel was ordered. Piece by piece, the men welded and bolted it into a single sheet, shaped it to fit the curve of the hull. Day after day, Deir, his face stubbled and grimy, his clothes soaked with oil, drove himself and the men unmercifully. Summer warmed the sea, the sun blistered their backs, and threats of heavy weather hung over them like a time bomb...
...high, the peasants sold their potatoes to the state instead of using them as pig feed, then slaughtered their pigs prematurely, thus sharply reducing the pork supply for 1959. State price fixing produced much the same results with cattle, and on top of all this, a severe drought last summer cut deeply into meager fodder stocks...
...Western journalism, often send out crisp, brief, seemingly impartial stories, but the party line is never missing: SALT PRODUCTION UP IN CHINA, headlined the Iraq Times, a Hsinhua user, over a recent dispatch. Often the line is tweezered in with surgical care. During President Eisenhower's late-summer tour of Europe, Hsinhua accounts sounded impersonal, but emphasized policy conflicts among the NATO allies: "The appearance of Eisenhower and Macmillan on TV was meant to be a show of 'cordiality' and 'solidarity' . . . yet even in such a public performance, Macmillan spoke at the beginning...
What emerged this summer was an airy, two-floor wing on the regular building with a score of stunning innovations. The chemistry lab has diamond-shaped worktables with ample drawer space and plentiful balances. The physics lab ceiling has hooks and pulleys at 3-ft. intervals for all manner of gravity and pendulum experiments. An electronic control board supplies any kind of electricity to every lab table. This year St. Charles will begin teaching the new M.I.T. physics course. The goal is that at least 10% of the students will have had two years of college work by the time...
...stint on the $64,000 Challenge, answering questions about popular music earned Patty a $32,000 tie with another young actor: Eddie (Music Man) Hodges. By the time The Miracle Worker was ready for casting this summer, Patty had behind her some big TV specials, among them Wuthering Heights and Swiss Family Robinson, and half a dozen Hollywood movies (including The Goddess and Country Music...