Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story, according to Moore: in the 1880's two prospectors discovered a fabulously rich vein of gold-bearing ore in the hills 20 miles outside of Moscow, Idaho. One shot the other, then headed to town, leaving a wheelbarrow to mark the mine...
This dustup only served to prove how futile and eventually disillusionary a practice it is to cover over disagreements with calculated ambiguities. In the new, more realistic vein, the West's proposal for the forthcoming political conference declares that no nation on the U.N. side need be bound by any decision for which it has not voted...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...that he had really been axed for breathing too hotly on G.O.P. Governor Alfred E. Driscoll's administration. Last week, while questioning New Jersey's (just retired) Republican state chairman, a prosperous, churchgoing real-estate executive named John J. Dickerson, the legislators cut into a thick, salty vein of untapped political history...
...example, a discussion of the conflict between group happiness and individual freedom brought on by the New Deal would have been a meaty subject for discussion. Another valuable vein to work would have been changes in popular definitions of happiness, something the author only hints at when he notes that the present concept "completely reverses the traditional American belief that there is discomfort in idleness, solid satisfaction in industry." And many would dispute this application of the Calvinist ethic of work as a good per so to the whole nation. The tradition of leisure has been especially strong...