Word: tiredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the glamourpuss, however, there stands a solid character of many-sided balance. Bernstein is a phenomenal extra vert. In his nature, to think is to act. Until recently he never seemed to tire of doing things, handling situations, arranging schedules, playing the life of the party, being all things to all people. He lives in a vague world of superficial friendliness, where charm is an easy way of life, and genuine warmth is reserved for work. And yet, at the worst of his extravertigo, Bernstein never lost sight of his first principles: truth to his word, loyalty to friends...
...Raymond C. (for Christy) Firestone, 48, was elected president of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the world's second largest rubber firm (just behind Goodyear), succeeding Lee R. Jackson. 65, who moves into a newly created position as vice chairman of the board. Ray Firestone, fourth son of Company Founder Harvey S. Firestone (brother Harvey Jr. is Firestone's board chairman and chief executive officer), started with Firestone as a gas-station attendant in California after graduating from Princeton...
...Togliatti could subdue the party regulars inside the hall, a more resounding verdict was delivered outside. Workers of Turin's Michelin tire plant, voting as the eighth congress was about to adjourn, registered a drop in Communist strength (from 60% to 26% of the total vote), to throw the Red-dominated union out of control of its shop stewards' committee for the first time since World...
Those more concerned with imbibing than with transporting hooked a tube on to the tire, ran it behind their lapels, and from there simply squeezed the tube with their elbows and swallowed...
...land is beginning to tire. Since most ranch owners add no fertilizer to their soil and provide no feed for herds and flocks to supplement pasturage, the per-animal yield of meat or wool is less than it should be. Uruguay's basic economic need is a double agrarian reform: 1) an education program to teach ranchers how to conserve their soil and get a richer return from it, and 2) a shift of welfare-state burdens from the countryside to the cities. Instead, the politicos in Montevideo, hoping that forced-draft industrialization will eventually rescue the economy, have...