Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumph and tragedy of Abraham Lincoln remains one of the great stories of U.S. history, and the poets, professors and politicians never tire of telling it in all its phases. Now an oldtime rewrite man has moved in, read 7,000,000 words of evidence about Lincoln's murder, and recast the familiar facts with startling, tabloid immediacy. In the course of his relentless, clock's-tick chronicle of the crucial hours, Jim Bishop, once of the New York News and Mirror and now editor of the Catholic Digest, sticks to police-blotter facts-and makes the state...
...Perhaps the language of Chaucer and Churchill is better for now including k-veniences, which are hangers, coinveniences, which hold money for parking meters, kon-veen-yunt tire chains, foodtainers and keytainers, roylies, which are doilies, plast-t-cap thumbtacks, tasteas, teariffic teabags, kar-pokits, diced cream, expaditers (pads of paper), slipper-grippers, chap sticks, paper mates, superfection strawberries, dangeratings, schweppervescence . . . Ladies can do lots in culottes, and summarize in summer dresses, size 16-40. After a long day in the office, their husbands come home and slip on their leisuals...
...TIRE PRICES, up 5% in the last few months, are headed still higher. Both U.S. Rubber and Goodyear have just announced 2½% to 5% price boosts because of continuing high crude-rubber prices, and the rest of the industry will probably follow suit. Predictions are for an overall 8% boost by June...
Morrison was removing his tire chains by the side of Route 110 when a car driven by Richard Deignault of Burlington, Vermont skidded on the slippery road behind him and threw him 100 feet. Neither Deignault nor Mrs. Morrison, who was sitting in the parked car, were injured...
...complete with contracts signed for 689,000 tons out of its total 865,000-ton capacity. So far, the U.S. has sold 22 of its 27 World War II plants (cost: $500 million), is now negotiating contracts to sell or lease four more. Among the buyers last week: Goodyear Tire & Rubber, which bought two plants with 116,000-ton annual capacity; Firestone Tire & Rubber, two plants with 130,000-ton capacity; Humble Oil & Refining Co., two plants with 89,000-ton capacity...