Word: use
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inches of it, because we imagine that any minute now it will be valuable as a collector's item. Pull out those tubes, plant it with philodendron, and there's your conversation piece." But then-every time the Kerrs save up $299 for a bigger set, they use the money to take a trip some place where there...
...pasteboard suitcase with two belts tied around it. She was wearing an old skirt; she'd never owned a dress in her life. My wife bought her a few dresses and tried to make her more feminine by getting her straight hair curled and showing her how to use lipstick...
...team but had little chance to play. She was bored and restless, and in one year her ranking fell so far that she was no longer listed among the country's top ten players. Althea was ready to quit. She all but decided to join the WAC and use a lieutenant's salary to help her family...
...journalism: exposés to order. Madam Quillan testified that when Harrison wanted to run a story on the homosexuality of a top-ranking movie actress (not mentioned in the testimony), he asked her to "get verification in any way possible, to go out to lunch with her, to use a Minifone to record the conversation. " La Quillan, who herself was once featured in Whisper as "Hollywood's Number One Madam," also said that she baited Bandleader Desi (I Love Lucy) Arnaz with two girls in order to "bring up to date" a story she had sold the magazine...
...schedule, two companies turned out half a million shots and (with an eye to public relations) allocated most of the vaccine to meet civilian demand. Philadelphia's National Drug Co. was ready with 260,000 straight anti-Asian shots, plus 60,000 shots of polyvalent vaccine, compounded for use against three types of flu recently current, including the Asian. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y. had churned out 180,000 doses, set aside half for the armed forces (which will do their own testing, thus hold up distribution for a while), put up the other half immediately...