Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...temperas, mostly records of the Pennsylvania countryside and Maine seacoast he knows best, are Wyeth's chief work. The worst of them look unnecessarily labored, but the best make him a candidate for the mantle of the great Pennsylvania realist Thomas Eakins. That dour master specialized in dramatizing the obvious, as Wyeth does in his crystalline Spindrift. The earthier Eakins would never have attempted Soaring...
Wearing a sport jacket and horn-rimmed spectacles, and carrying a big package ("It's my old lady's birthday"), Larry bounced into the studio first. When "the old lady" showed up, her cued-in lyrics in hand, they went to work. Larry had had a bit of stock-company experience in the past year or two, but Mary wasn't too sure of his voice: "It hasn't settled enough for anyone to know what it is really like. But he can carry a tune . . ." After three hours of coaching, needling and playbacks, they finished...
...racket" which made it impossible for the workingman to buy a car. With no real documentation to back him up, Reuther said that the "meat-ax approach" of Regulation W, plus cutbacks in critical materials, would throw no less than 321,000 auto workers out of work. Reuther had a meat-ax approach of his own: slap immediate controls on everything except wages...
...well be higher than FRB intended. Furthermore, the auto dealers were using old figures when they talked of slumping sales. With a threatened cut in auto output, car sales have recently spurted upward again. Nevertheless, FRB thought that tougher credit controls might check inflation-if given a chance to work...
...excitement of her promotion, Miss Rosenberg burbled: "This is the greatest thing that's ever happened to Macy's." Then she caught herself: "Not me, mind you. But picking a woman for such a high position. It's an inspiration to all the little girls who work here." Her advice to the little girls who want to be veeps: "Get along with...