Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first singles, Ben Heckscher defeated Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn, 15-7, 12-15, 15-11, 15-11. There was little doubt as to the outcome of the match, for although Hoehn was excep- tionally quick and retrieved beautifully, he could not cope with Heckscher's power and vast array of polished shots...
Where does it go? Listed in the 1,249 pages of the 4 3/4-lb. 1958 budget is a staggering array of proposed expenditures, including $587,000 for relocating Botanic Garden greenhouses in the District of Columbia, $26,500 for installing new bowling alleys in the Panama Canal Zone and $590,000 for purchasing 50 hopper cars for the Alaska Railroad (but no new funds for the Joint Congressional Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures, which must try to get along on the money left over from the $22,500 appropriated...
Before the Russians came back in tenfold strength, Budapest had its famous five days of freedom. There was heady talk of quitting the satellite Warsaw Pact and proclaiming neutrality. The romantic Hungarians had gone too far: back came the Russians in ruthless array. Out went Nagy, in came thin-lipped Quisling Janos Kadar. The Russian tanks and infantry were now too much for the street fighters. This is where the Hungarian revolution might have ended but for factory workers like Lazlo Szabo, foreman of a textile mill at Vac, near Budapest...
Resplendent in grey chiffon and diamonds, H.R.H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, a handsome woman at 50, posed in Kensington Palace for a birthday portrait by Britain's most chic photographer, willowy Cecil Beaton. For the occasion, she bedecked herself with a spectacular array of decorations, including the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
...FOOTNOTE*Only one fewer than the U.S. has had in its history, and so bewildering an array as to prompt the old company joke: when an NBC executive goes to lunch, he tells his secretary: "If my boss calls, please get his name...