Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounds are balmy as a West Indian zephyr, satisfyingly in tune, and played with carefree spirit. The rhythms are intricately Afro-Cuban, e.g., meringue, samba, mambo, although they eventually fall into a predictable pattern. High points: a gimp-gaited calypso about a cricket upset ("Who taught you to bowl, Australia?"), and another that laments some aspects of the latest white man's invasion, a number called Brown-Skinned...
...routine daily report of conditions aloft, the Los Angeles Weather Bureau added an item in keeping with the age: a reading of the pattern that nuclear fallout would follow in the prevailing winds. Twice daily, the bureau will release fallout bulletins. Purpose of the service: to prepare authorities to 1) regulate evacuation routes in case of an attack, and 2) give advance warning to communities along a bomb's fallout trail...
...Good Names. Kayser's quick climb, a one-year wonder in an ailing industry, is cut right to the pattern of rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lbs.) 47-year-old Abe Feinberg's whole career. A hosiery salesman's son who went to work at 14 "cleaning 17 cuspidors a day for 17 underwear salesmen," Feinberg rose to be a cuspidor user in two years, quit his $75-a-week salesman's job when it interfered with his evening studies at Fordham Law School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees...
...this pattern of living, charge and checking accounts have become the key means of watching income and outgo. Instead of counting the cash in the envelopes, families now leaf through their check stubs at the end of the month. Says one Seattle housewife: "Practically all our expenses-and those of everyone I know-are predetermined. We have certain payments we have to make-house, car, payments for food, clothes for ourselves and our three children. It doesn't take a slide-rule budget to make those payments. Our biggest concern is where our money goes, and the checkbook record...
...Thumb & Bride. There was a lot of Tiffany character and tradition to preserve. The company's elegant pattern was fashioned by Charles Tiffany, then a 25-year-old country storekeeper from Connecticut who borrowed $1,000 from his mill-owner father, and with a friend set up a fine stationery and pottery shop on lower Broadway. Though the partners took in only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought...