Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin-engine C-46-one of seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...heard; and his singers, fearful of losing themselves-and their voices - in the 75-ft.-deep stage, hovered close to the footlights. When it was over, some veteran operagoers who remembered Mary Garden's Salome thought that Brenda Lewis' striptease with the seven veils was a bit corny. But one listener, as taken with Brenda's figure as with her singing, reported: "Salome had the best voice I ever...
...meticulous portrait painter,* Nicholson spent his art-student days "mostly playing billiards," which might possibly have stimulated his liking for abstract forms in space. He turned to abstraction bit by bit, still can't explain how it happened. Said he: "It's like a child learning to walk. By the time you've reached the 50th step you can't describe the different stages...
...Montgomery and Bette Davis have a moderately intelligent script in "June Bride," and that's all they need. Montgomery is an accomplished wisecracker, and on occasion he can make even a standard line something to be remembered. Bette Davis, of course, is an actress, and although she seems a bit bottled up in a role that doesn't require lots of emotion, she can handle light comedy without much effort...
...Brown medley, the composer Jack Finnegan '46 stood up took a bow. He stood up twice more during the concert, each time for better cause, for his Columbia and Yale Medleys were every bit as good as they sounded the days of the games. Soon after the Yale Medley, the Band broke down and played "Wintergreen" and the man in the second balcony, who had been calling for it all evening, stood up and bowed...