Word: blew
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Manager Schang bided his time while U.S.-Russian relations blew hot and blew cold until, about a year ago, the Soviets joined UNESCO. That, decided Schang, meant a major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague...
...Naked Emperors. Goya's foreign contemporaries -Guardi, Gainsborough, Fragonard-specialized in elegance. Goya did too, but instinctively pricked the bubbles he blew, fastening on the frivolous, pompous and stupid personalities inside the fine clothes of his noble sitters. Like the naked emperor of the fable, they seemed not to notice. Charles IV made him court painter and gave him a carriage. Occasionally Goya was commissioned to portray a beautiful woman, which enabled him to exhibit a warmer side. Friends who sat for him got off lightly; he could still admire...
Brewer Busch vividly remembers the night of April 7, 1933. "The crowds were singing and having a wonderful time," he recalls, "and at midnight every factory in St. Louis blew its whistle. Then the trucks rolled out of the gates and took Budweiser to bars all over St. Louis. People were backed all the way out to the curb waiting for their turn at the bar." Gussie, his father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks...
...more unwilling warrior could have been found for Operation Popgun than Captain Trimmer, onetime ladies' hairdresser on the Aquitania. But the submarine lost its way, and the trembling Trimmer found himself leading the first Britons since Dunkirk back onto the French coast. Somehow Trimmer's sergeant blew up a rail line, while the press officer quoted tipsy encouragement to the captain. "For God's sake, come on," squeaked Trimmer from the small boat, as the sappers returned. "Be of good comfort, Master Trimmer, and play the man," urged the press officer. "We shall this day light such...
...ball and scored a clean-and noisy-strike. Kostelanetz beamed at the rumble and thud. A few minutes later the music sped up to sound like a bustling city: a rescue-squad man started a wailing siren, a park policeman astride his motorcycle to the right of the stage blew his whistle...