Word: work
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is an inaccurate statement. We have done no work for the Toronto Art Gallery since July...
Fitness Report. In London, the Times ran a classified ad: "Tired, bored, lazy army officer resigning from infantry regiment. Incompetent, drinks too much. Seeks employment, not too much work, London area. Age 28, looks...
...mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried to lure all the Long-loving back-country people down to the voting machines. But even the backwoods had seen enough; neither Earl nor his candidate for Governor, ex-Governor James A. Noe, 65, got enough votes to win a place in next January's decisive...
...world's richest men. And there are Indian millionaires who religiously feed ants to show their reverence for life, and lavish their charity not on hospitals or schools but on retirement farms for aging sacred cows. An estimated 7,000,000 Indians are unemployed; many millions more get work only sporadically. India's food production is at last gaining, but it has a hard time keeping up with the Indian birth rate, which is also increasing. Every day 28,400 new Indians are born...
...daylight before any organized rescue work could get under way, as helicopter crews from the French carrier La Fayette (once the U.S. carrier Langley) joined gendarmes, soldiers and dazed survivors in searching for the dead and missing. It was not easy work: from the broken stump of the dam to the sea, a great syrupy sludge of mud coated the valley. National Route 7, the main highway from Paris to Nice and Cannes, ended in a mangle of smashed houses and trees and trucks. A mile of the main railroad tracks linking Paris with the Riviera was uprooted. Most appalling...