Word: standings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...defense called Homer Marsh to the stand and pointed to a half-empty Coca-Cola bottle standing on a railing near the witness stand. Would a Coke with a dead mouse in it give a fellow recurring stomach spasms? Witness Marsh, a bacteriologist at University of Oklahoma medical school, said it would not. He had inspected the Coca-Cola Co.'s local bottling plant, admired its sanitary precautions and felt sure that no mouse, dead or alive, could have gotten into the bottle at the plant...
Another former laboratory worker, Joseph Ackermann, said the director ordered a "very special present" for Koch's birthday, a lamp of human skin and bone. "The light was switched on by pressure against the little toe of one of the three human feet which formed the stand...
...Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when we get a good gang of men working," said a U.S. engineer...
...Jaws. I found few rank & file Yugoslavs who looked that far ahead with that much optimism. Why then do the people set their jaws grimly and bear the confusion and hardship? Apathy is part of the answer. It is easier to get along with the police state than to stand...
...parties. Office staff members," he said, "are caught with their guards down; they do not want to take part in the drinking, but are dragged in ... Last Christmas I saw four girls come out of an office building and go reeling down the sidewalk so intoxicated they could hardly stand. None could have been more than 20 years old. It was a shameful sight. I hope employers will look into this practice and try to devise some more appropriate kind of party...