Word: western
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europeans built more than double the number of housing units than the U.S., at a time when U.S. builders were hammering away at a near record 1,350,000 new homes...
...good paperbacks for students to buy if they wished. Principal Walter Larsh approved so long as no student was compelled to buy the books (against the law). Teacher Russell's 51 juniors snapped up the books, though pennies are scarce in Venice, a brassy seaside settlement on the western edge of Los Angeles...
...time, a member of the audience took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...
...West were coming to recognize that the task of aiding the underdeveloped lands is not a burden that the U.S. alone should bear; it is a job to be shared. Secondly, most underdeveloped nations have modified or cast aside their once strongly held socialist notions, and now welcome Western capital as the real avenue of growth and development...
They Came to Cordura. Hero Gary Cooper, the man of courage through a long cinematic career, turns coward in this $4,000,000 western but achieves, with Rita Hayworth's help, a different, spiritual bravery...