Word: whets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain wiped out import quotas on all but a handful of U.S. goods that have been barred or restricted for 20 years. Its gesture is expected to whet demand for American-style cocktail dresses and printed skirts, other readymade clothing of new, washable fabrics that are still high-priced in Britain. Novelties such as blue jeans, California apple juice, well-designed U.S. toys, and costume jewelry should also fare well. But Detroit automakers expect no gain, since steep British import duties and sales taxes, added to transport costs, double U.S. price tags. U.S. cars are considered too big, too flary...
...Baileys lost all their money in 1939 producing a show that used Hollywood cheesecake to whet the Eastern appetite, quickly suffered an Occidental death. Interned by the Japanese during World War II, Bill, then in his mid-50s, put the years of imprisonment to good use: he learned to read and write, something he had never found time to accomplish before...
...told, the Moiseyev Dancers will visit eleven cities across the U.S. and Canada. If their experience in London and Paris is any indication, their Russian hoedowns will please the crowds, whet their appetite for the Bolshoi, which is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. in spring...
...easels in Manhattan's Wildenstein galleries, stood a $70,000 Gauguin and a $45,000 Renoir. For the man who made such products as Lucky Strike, Palmolive, Pepsodent, Kleenex and Kotex into household words, the world of art was opening. On hand to coach and whet his appetite was his wife Mary, who had majored in art at Radcliffe, gone on to help run a Manhattan gallery...
...totting up grocery bills or figuring compound interest, completely fail to give their pupils any glimpse into the concepts that lie behind the subject. Last year Fehr took on the job of collaborating with TV Producer Richard Pack of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. on a TV show that might whet the mathematical appetites of children around junior high-school age. Result: a pleasant, nine-part series called Adventures in Number and Space, now being shown once a week over regular TV channels in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland. Pittsburgh and San Francisco...