Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laughter died to a strained silence. Father Laberge removed his shoes, climbed into his upper berth, and began reading his breviary. Nobody asked him any more questions for the rest of the trip...
...rich, black topsoil" has almost mystical value; once lost, it can never be restored. The fact is, explains Dr. Kellogg, that many virgin soils, especially in the forested eastern U.S., were not productive originally; they had to be nursed to fertility. Some highly productive soils never had a dark upper layer...
That's the report of a survey of American university graduates by the Population Reference Bureau, which warns that America's intellectual upper class is in danger of dying...
...month since a shotgun blast shattered his right arm, U.A.W. Chieftain Walter Reuther had been living in a quiet, antiseptic nightmare. In Detroit's new Grace Hospital he lay with the upper part of his body in a plaster cast, his bad arm held aloft by cords and pulleys. Occasionally he was given electric shocks to keep the arm from stiffening. He slept less than two hours in 24-his pain was continuous and doctors were afraid that sedatives might hamper his recovery...
...looked healthily pink. As usual, his tie was knotted at half mast on his high, stiff collar. Ramrod straight, he stood 6 ft. 1 in. and shook hands with a lumberjack's grip. Being in the upper division again after all these years looked like...