Word: third
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya Gazeta reporter estimated that from one-third to one-half of all consumer expenditures for such services goes into private pockets. In Stalingrad he found that a sofa bought for 600 rubles costs 416 rubles more to be put into good shape...
...Broadway opening one night last week, the theater critic of the New York Times, a mild, slender, unassuming man with steel-rimmed spectacles and a grey mustache, slipped inconspicuously out of the Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched immediately by the impatient copy desk...
...power stroke, a corner of the rotor uncovers the exhaust port, and the burned gases are swept out of the engine. Meanwhile, two other cavities have been formed and are passing through the same cycle. Maximum shaft speed is 17,000 r.p.m., but the rotor turns over only one-third as fast...
...second trip brings him a Ph.D. degree, and a third a lifetime supply of that scholarly formaldehyde, tenure. Surprisingly, his life as an aborigine (he is accepted as a Dang) makes considerably more sense to him than his hollow existence as an academician. The savages consider him a master prophet, and he is on the point of believing it himself when, like a paddle ball on a rubber cord, he is snapped back to civilization. The irony is delicately put, and Satirist Elliott leaves no doubt as to which society he is shaving with his razor's edge...
...Third Man on the Mountain. James Ramsey Ullman's Banner in the Sky is turned into an alpine adventure for kids, with a juvenile hero (James MacArthur) and spectacular scenery...