Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year newspaper veteran whose father and grandfather were peace officers in Arizona territory, Reddick normally has no use for heroics. Why did he disarm the wife slayer? "Well," he explained, "I began to think, hell, when a man fires a gun into your face and it doesn't go off, it's just not your time...
According to Dr. Hughes, Russian scientists admit openly that the U.S. is ahead in basic physics research. They look up to U.S. physicists and use translations of U.S. textbooks in advanced nuclear physics. They reprint 10,000 to 15,000 copies of the Physical Review in English. Almost all Russian scientists have to know English, says Hughes, to keep up with science in English-speaking countries. He thinks that he was invited to lecture in Russia because the Russians knew that "they weren't doing too much, and wanted to do more...
Chief reasons for the slowdown are a surplus of oil and light demand. The trouble started during the Suez crisis, when oilmen expanded to meet a big demand that did not come; it was made worse by the failure of the U.S. to increase oil use at a normal 6%-a-year pace. In October, demand, ran only seven-tenths of 11% ahead of October 1956. In this softening market, the oil-rich states are holding down the amount of allowable production to hold up the price, and offshore oil has been cut by the general slash. The State...
...point of fact, Eloise is the most terrible enfant who ever tried to use two sticks of French bread as a pair of skis. Eloise, as thousands of half-horrified, half-fascinated readers know by now, is the child (she is six, well past the age of dissent) who resides more or less alone at the Plaza in New York, subsisting on Room Service, while Mother is off being divorced, or remarried, or something. Eloise has authorized Nightclub Comedienne and occasional Author Kay Thompson to write her biography. Two years ago the first installment, titled Eloise, was a whirlaway bestseller...
...have to have champagne" or the poignant historical observation that "there are absolutely no kings in France." accompanied by a shattering picture of this child Jacobin dancing her version of the carmagnole in Versailles' Hall of Mirrors. With near-genius she manages to use Paris for the special and highly logical purposes that will occur to a little girl's mind. There is the chance to go swimming in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde, to sit at Fouquet's and wash one's feet with soda water (like T. S. Eliot...