Word: sunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bronze-Age Bar. The palace was well looted when it was burned, but smaller structures built on its ruins were destroyed without looting. Most interesting was a row of little shops. One was a Bronze Age pub with sunken vats for the wine supply and a lavish supply of glasses for serving the customers. It also had knucklebones, a gambling game that did the duty of a modern bar's chuck-a-luck...
...last fortnight, the Philippines had reduced its claim by 90%. It asked only $20 million in cash, $30 million for "services," including ridding Manila Bay of its sunken hulks, the rest in capital goods, and investment loans. Still the Japanese balked. Last week Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu hinted to the Japanese Diet that he might compromise between Manila's $800 million demand and Japan's last offer of $400 million...
...same critical labor leader admits that Reuther is changing; he is becoming more a "bread-and-butter unionist" and less a social engineer out to "remake the world." Not that he has dropped his habit of making grandiose plans. He prepared a wartime plan to raise the sunken liner Normandie; later he blueprinted a "100-year plan" under which the U.S. would give the rest of the world $1,300 billion for peace. He called it "Proposal for a Total Peace Offensive to Stop Communist Aggression by Taking the Initiative in the World Contest for Men's Minds, Hearts...
...Mysterious Stirring. What kind of girl enters a religious order? The drawn visage and sunken eye are not encouraging signs to a Mother Prioress interviewing a prospective postulant. High-spirited, happy girls make the best sisters-the ones who enjoy parties and have dates. Such a girl was St. Teresa herself, who told a Spanish swain who admired her pretty feet at a party: "Have a good look, caballero, for this is the last time you will see them...
Underwater! (RKO Radio). Fill a bathing suit with Jane Russell, toss into water and mix well into a $3,000,000 movie. Season the movie with submarine photography, a few sharks, two treasurehunting skin-divers and one sunken Spanish galleon. The result is likely to be a lot of bullion. By the time Skin-Divers Richard Egan and Gilbert Roland surface with the gold ingots, Jane has displayed her more notable talents in high-cut shorts, low-cut dresses, pajamas, a nightgown, one-piece and two-piece swim suits. Her clothes designer can hardly be held responsible for the shape...