Word: embarking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for confidence; Ward's sales (1958 total: $1.1 billion) rode 19% ahead of last year's in February and March, will probably show a 14% gain for April, "We are on the eve of a decade of great economic activity," said Chairman Barr. "We would not embark on a program of this scope if we did not have great faith in the future of our economy...
...Embark on a program of nationalization of such industries as sulphur, using the clause in the constitution giving the state control over subsoil resources...
...London Times, a sure sign that normalcy is returning. In Poland-so far the only Communist state to succumb to the latest U.S. export-the shortage of hoops has become critical. Complained one youth wjeekly: "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Chamber of Artisans do not embark upon the production of hoops, we will be seriously delayed in hula hoop progress, especially on the international level...
...Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier, Marian gathered the famous but never the infamous. Hearing that Sarah Bernhardt, whose private life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created the Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve...
Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...