Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bobo's mother and stepfather, who were unable to attend the ceremony because they were making a batch of Lithuanian cheese on their Indiana farm, both announced that they were happy. Rockefeller's mother and father, who were vacationing in Tucson, Ariz., said they were happy...
...dictatorship. They were the backbone (if backbone it had) of Social Democracy. They were perhaps best epitomized by Sidney Webb, later Lord Passfield. He and his wife Beatrice loved the bicycle, and untiringly cycled about the business of their Fabian Society; once they pedaled 40 miles to Cardiff to attend a trade union congress. They believed not in the inevitability of revolution but in the "inevitability of gradualness," i.e., in a steady bicycle ride toward socialism...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
...spite of Walton's strict beliefs, the George School is as informal as a public high school. The boys dress in brightly colored sweaters, the girls have adopted the New Look. Students and teachers eat and work and worship together; and they all attend informal dances on Saturday night. Students of other faiths make up about half of George's enrollment...
...first act of Peter Grimes, the applause was tentative. It came as something of a blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were singing about. But after the audience sat back and just listened to the music, as they do at operas sung in Italian and German, everything went better. At the final curtain, the Metropolitan's only new opera of the year got ten enthusiastic curtain calls...