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Word: braced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Together Again? | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...military Teletypes that morning began to splutter with the news: North Korean Communists had invaded South Korea. General MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo alerted the 24th and the other three U.S. divisions-in Japan to brace themselves for a Communist invasion of the islands. Dean, who had been military governor of South Korea two years earlier, was not surprised when the ill-equipped South Korean constabulary fled before the Communist tanks. Following the first news of the Red advance, Foot Soldier Dean did not think that it could be halted merely by air and sea aid to the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: A Soldier's Soldier | 12/7/1953 | See Source »

...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Kiss Me, Kate | 11/27/1953 | See Source »

...chamber still decked in mourning, 120 West Berlin assemblymen met one day last week to elect a successor to the late great Ernst Reuter, mayor of West Berlin. Waiting in the anteroom behind a brace of glowing cigars were two rival candidates: Deputy Mayor Walther Schreiber, 69, a Christian Democrat, and Socialist Otto Suhr, 59, chairman of the assembly. The votes were cast and counted, and for the first time in three years, the "great coalition" that united Berlin behind Reuter's Socialists broke asunder. The right-wing parties (Christian Democrats and Free Democrats) split with their Socialist allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Mr. Mayor | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...Brace Munro's squad, with its so-so, two win-two loss record, will be at very nearly full strength for the encounter. Only Stacy Holmes, inside right, will be unable to see action. Dick Fisher, starter at that position today, played such a good game against Wesleyan, scoring the only goal, that he can scarcely be considered a substitute...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Strong Green Soccer Team Meets Crimson Here Today | 10/23/1953 | See Source »

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