Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time: Toscanini, whose style he once likened to a "mastodonic mechanical piano." Above all, Giulio commissioned Arrigo Boîto to write the librettos of Otello and Falstaff, which fired the aged Verdi into composing again. Although Puccini drew monthly advances for nine years before paying the money back, their friendship was sometimes stormy. "All composers," Giulio wrote him once, "French, English, German, Turkish and Abyssinian, [are] a bunch of idiots...
When 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska arrived in Australia early last month, toting her textbooks to keep up on high school homework, the reception was overwhelming. "Back home I guess that hardly anyone's ever heard of me," she said. "But out here everyone seems to know all about my times and everything. It's fantastic." Sylvia cuddled koalas, toured amusement parks, visited Dancer Fred Astaire on a movie set, but never lost sight of why she had come: to show swim-conscious Australians what an American girl could do. By the time she returned to California this...
...somewhere and get garlands of marigolds draped around their necks. But from the scientific point of view, they aren't doing much good." Another grumbled wearily that "these people go out and grab every _ beetle they can lay hands on and bring jars and jars of them back to us." Expeditioneers ignore such grousing. Said one jungle-happy scholar: "Oxford's a terrific base camp...
...years Philosopher Gross was the house expert against whom contestants on the now defunct TV show, Two for the Money, gambled with their answers. Gross decided onstage, and without a chance to crib from reference books, whether the answers were correct, seldom had to back down. An extramural job that comes closer to the complexity of his new one: his chairmanship, since...
...level-flight attitude. They also found breaches of operating procedure: i) the automatic flight recorder had no tape in it; 2) only one pilot was in the cockpit instead of two, as required on international flights; 3) the copilot, alone at the controls, had pushed his seat so far back that when the dive began, he could not reach them quickly...