Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In voting on candidates, the clubs follow tradition. Members are handed a basket of black and white balls. To approve a candidate, the member picks out a white ball; the negative action in this type of voting has added an unpleasant word to the vocabulary. Two black balls are usually...
That night the chief interrogator came to Dean and told him he would be tortured in the morning. He thought of splinters to be thrust under fingernails and set afire to make a man talk. Dean, who had become increasingly depressed, decided to commit suicide. "Dean," he told himself, "you...
Post Cereals division of General Foods Corp. upgraded its premium appeal; it enclosed patterns for early American "antiques." Designed to capitalize on the do-it-yourself trend, the patterns include: a Williamsburg shelf, Pilgrim footstool, courting mirror, tulip knife box. Pennsylvania wall box and a cradle.
But not everyone was cheering in the streets. In Oklahoma City TV dealers held a mass meeting to protest the boast of station WKY-TV that it would be the first U.S. station, outside the networks, to carry color TV. The dealers complained that WKY's advertisement was misleading...
Handy Man's Metal. For home craftsmen, Reynolds Metals Co. has brought out a soft aluminum alloy that can be cut with scissors, trimmed with a penknife, or shaped with ordinary woodworking tools without harming them. With Do-It-Yourself Aluminum, available in 36 items -rods, sheets, bars, angles...