Word: tor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive to claim North Africa tor the North Africans leaped suddenly southward along the Atlantic last week. This time the beleaguered colonists were the Spanish, not the French...
...meet the shortage, the Ford Mo tor Co. fortnight ago dropped age limits for its on-the-job training classes, opened them to all employees who meet the aptitude requirements. Other industries in many areas are making a direct attack on the idea that only the backward go into vocational training. In Cleveland the big machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with...
...take more than a year to complete. Though the goddess of victory will then preside triumphantly over Communist East Berlin, West Berliners noted one fact with satisfaction. With the Quadriga back in place, there would be no room for the hated red flag now flying atop Brandenburger Tor...
Last week in Milan's 13th century Church of San Marco a dedicated Milanese restorer, pretty Pinin Brambilla, 31, was finishing the task of uncovering an unsuspected fresco that tor its brilliant, fresh colors and bold, naturalistic drawing of the crucified Christ might well make even Critic Berenson eat his words...
...really a nonstop conversation piece, Mencken's vice was word-intoxication. Profane, scatological and childishly bigoted, Mencken uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader to know Mencken better. Angoff's strip-poker method of characterization rarely gets under...