Word: nearest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...twelve years Rosetta Schroder was a prize student at one of New Zealand's busiest schools. The daughter of a sawmill operator, she lived with her parents and sister near Mount Turiwhate in the rugged bush country of the South Island's thinly populated west coast. The nearest school was a tough nine miles away, too far for daily travel. So when she was five, Rosetta began listening to lessons broadcast each day by New Zealand's national radio stations...
Nothing to Chance. A. T. & T.'s efficiency goes far beyond machines. Almost every employee agrees that the company is a good place to work; it offers interesting work, stock purchase and pension plans, security and job advancement. But few deny that it is the nearest thing to regimentation in a private company. Says one employee: "When you join the telephone company, your whole life changes." A. T. & T. drills "duty" and "service" into its employees; it inundates them with dozens of handbooks of instruction. They tell employees what to do to meet almost every conceivable problem, from flying...
...permit him to be captured by the hero (Richard Widmark) and his kid brother (Earl Holliman), who are involved in a nasty sibling rivalry over the kid brother's wife (Tina Louise). Anyway, they all start out across a gangster-infested desert in the direction of the nearest police station. Groans Actor Cobb: "It's gonna be a long, hot night." He's so right...
...France, Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., competing against some of Europe's leading women skiers, scored an eighth in the slalom, then barreled down the 1.6-mile slope through a thick fog to win the downhill race in 2 min. 6.34 sec. -two full seconds faster than her nearest rival, and enough to give her first place in the overall combined scoring...
BEFORE anything could be done, a special road had to be built from the nearest highway, and 800,000 tons of rocks had to be blasted out of the belly of the mountain. But to Generalissimo Franco in 1941 such obstacles were minor. Gradually, in the Valley of the Fallen, in memory of the million Spaniards killed during the Civil War, there rose the great monument and mausoleum where he and those who had died for the cause of "liberation" were to be buried...