Word: acclaims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Georges Enesco, 73, Rumanian composer, conductor and violinist, who became his nation's leading musician, won worldwide acclaim for his Rumanian Rhapsodies; after long illness; in Paris. Enesco entered the Vienna Conservatory at seven despite a director's protest that it was "not a cradle," had had his compositions widely performed by the time he was a young man. He had lived in France for the last 50 years, recently turned down a bid to return to Red-controlled Rumania...
...they did receive the acclaim of the sun-drenched crowds on the river banks for their impressive, understroking defeat of the varsity by a ruargin of eight feet or 1.1 seconds. Winning time over the mile and three-quarters course...
...office worker popped out. Everyone laughed from sheer nervousness. At 4:25 the door opened once more and out stepped Winston Churchill, in striped pants, frock coat and topper. There was a sparse cheer or two, then suddenly the street rocked with three huge, earsplitting cheers of acclaim. A slight, sad smile crinkled the Churchillian features for a moment. Then, clamping firmly on his cigar, the Prime Minister climbed into his car and headed for Buckingham Palace...
...dreaming out loud; he had not won so much as a centimo in the lottery. Nobody seemed to know just how the phony story of his great luck had originated, but Spain's press had strong suspicions that Dominguín was ravenous for the sort of glorious acclaim he once got by cleanly killing bulls...
...Paris, Les Sorcières de Salem, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, won critical acclaim and a typically French confusion of interpretations. A few saw the story of the Salem witch hunts as an indictment of Joe McCarthy; others interpreted it as a damnation of Communist persecutions. Commented Le Monde's critic: "This ancient history of sorcery, mobile as a weather vane, can as well be directed at the East as at the West...