Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beauty aids, once considered a luxury, are now a necessity-especially to the 20 million women who have jobs. Young girls now battle parents to wear cosmetics in grammar school, and women's magazines are full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve...
...William Stanley Mazeroski is Pittsburgh's second baseman; in action, he seems determined to prove himself a one-man ball club. He ranges after flies as widely as any outfielder, charges bunts with such breakneck energy that sore-backed First-Baseman Ted Kluszewski is left lumbering in his wake. He handles the double-play with the swift hands of a professional pickpocket. "He doesn't catch that ball," says one of his fans. "He just guides it toward first base...
Dowling was head of the Harvard Catholic Club and had been active in Church affairs here. Arrangements for the funeral and the wake have not yet been completed...
...broken bric-a-brac. Meanwhile, the Army had little to say about a development yet to come: along with two dozen other missile installations ringing New York City, B Battery is scheduled to replace its TNT Nike-Ajaxes after this year with the atomic Nike-Hercules. In the wake of Leonardo's explosive afternoon, it was going to be hard to convince the neighbors in New Jersey-or around the Nikes guarding 22 other U.S. industrial complexes-that living alongside atomic warheads was still like living beside a gas station...
This week in Venezuela, in the wake of the Red-led anti-Nixon riots, Communism turned into a full-blown political issue. Reflecting the outrage of the Roman Catholic Church and other conservative factions, the two civilian members of the ruling junta -Industrialist Eugenio Mendoza and Civil Engineer Bias Lamberti -demanded enforcement of Venezuela's anti-Red law to curb the burgeoning Communist Party. The three military members, reflecting the unrealistic tolerance of all major politicians, refused. Mendoza and Lamberti quit, bringing on a tense political crisis...