Word: waits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...piggy bank at the age of five. In the world of red bricks, this is like arguing about the number of angels on the point of a pin. Psychiatrists who have worked on the back wards readily admit that they can claim no technical cures-they will have to wait at least five years after a patient's discharge for that. What they do claim is an impressive number of "social recoveries": cases in which a patient for whom there had been little hope has been brought around to the point where he can go back to a normal...
Both the varsity and the Larries from Canton, N.Y., have one NCAA game left to play. It the Committee decides to wait until the entire eastern schedule has been completed, the final selections will be postponed until Sunday, when the three committee coaches will meet at the Kenmore in Boston...
...Government's No. expert on letters. Her pamphlet on style, her precooked form paragraphs, and her mail-room short cuts are standard in many Government offices. Her nix-list of 150 avoidable words and phrases is well known to Washington letter writers. Samples: Held in abeyance (wait is better), at the earliest possible moment ("this may be the moment the letter arrives"), finalize, (a "manufactured" word), in the near future ("say soon"), attached please find ("attached is is adequate...
...using new synthetic yarns. Masland has an allrayon rug that, it says, wears better and stays clean longer than cotton and has about the same resiliency as wool. Cost: about $10 a sq. yd. Firth has coated wool with vinyl plastic to make it wear longer; Nye-Wait and others have brought out nylon rugs that cost more than wool ($15 to $45 a sq. yd.) but wear better, are mothproof, and have a rich, glittery shine that housewives like. The stylists have put synthetic rugs out in every pattern from standard flowered designs to tweeds, plaids and bright basket...
...Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still too recent to fully appreciate. A single superbomb, exploded close to the ground, can contaminate a state...