Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working, and the waiting line for it snaked out into the lobby. One of Cushing's daughters tripped, broke her leg. A guest ran over one of his dogs. The whole thing was, to use Cushing's word, "ghastly...
...Feiffer's best cartoons are not funny at all, instead sting with bitterness and poignancy, e.g., the numbing isolation of a small boy whose braying mother prefers his brother. "I'm against the misuse of power of all kinds," says Feiffer. "I'm against people who use their views and authority as a ploy against others...
...with religion." ¶ Biographer Justino Fernandez: "Orozco is hard on God at the Day of Judgment, because he felt that the punishments meted out to sinful men were too severe." ¶ Dealer Inés Amor: "He hated mankind, if ever a man did. 'All Indians,' he used to say, 'are ugly.' Why was he bitter? Because of his life, his failures, his poverty, his obsessive inferiority complex." ¶ Writer Alma Reed: "He had compassion and humanity above all other painters. He was a great mathematician, a great engineer, a great architect." ¶ Painter...
...living only if the ready-to-wear buyers purchase their things; so we have to design for the woman in the street. Isn't it pleasant, after all, that you can make a whole street pretty?" Concentrating on simple morning suits and handsome evening dresses ("I have no use for the afternoon -that hour when women sit together and sip tea"), Crahay splits his styles into X and Y lines: the X with bloused top, narrow waist, padded hips; the Y with wide shoulders and a dizzying décolletage swooping down to the waist. Prices : about...
...deal serves a double purpose for American by finding a use for the transports at a time when the market for used planes is sour. With jets and turboprops coming into service, every airline is trying to sell its obsolete craft, and prices are down sharply. By turning DC-7Bs into freighters with 16¾ton capacity and 360-plus m.p.h. speeds (2¼ tons more, 55 m.p.h. faster than DC-6A freighters), American not only avoids the risk of taking a big loss, but also gives itself a leg up in a vigorous young business that is just beginning...