Word: swells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance was to gratify his ego without running the intolerable risk of having him, in fact, set up a rival power center to Moscow...
...sold the magazine about a night she had spent with him in 1944. Rushmore said that Francesca de Scaffa. ex-wife of Actor Bruce Cabot, not only passed on a tip she had obtained in bed with one star but offered to have an "affair with any man" to swell the magazine's story list...
...weather seem a national calamity and drought a boon. In a year of bountiful crops, the Agriculture Department will spend a record $5 billion, largely in an effort to cope with surpluses. Instead of going to markets, countless tons of the wheat, corn and cotton harvested last week will swell the $5.5 billion worth of farm surpluses stored in U.S. Government silos, warehouses and cold-storage vaults, which already hold more wheat than the nation consumes in a year and a pound of cheese for every man, woman, child and white rat in the country...
...retreat at every opportunity," said Presbyterian Ted Aller of Los Angeles last week, "and when I come home, my wife says I'm fit to live with, for a few months." Design Engineer Aller represents a powerful ground swell in U.S. Protestantism-the practice of making religious retreats...
...additive for gasoline to provide better economy and lower engine maintenance, is marketing it through Richfield Oil Corp. and Sunray Oil Corp. Though boron for gasoline this year would account for only $500,000 of all borax sales, U.S. Borax hopes to sell the boron additive directly to dealers, swell boron gas into a healthy market. Boron is also being carefully researched for use in new plastics with high-temperature melting point, in atomic energy (since they absorb neutrons, some boron compounds can be used as reactor shields), in fire-retardant additives for plastics and paints, in new steel alloys...