Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...siege to each other's sweethearts, and, to their own discomfiture, succeed-has seldom been more merrily staged. Under the direction of Peter Herman Adler, Mozart's music was kept feather-light and crystal-clean. Soprano Phyllis Curtin and Mezzo Frances Bible were as pretty a brace of slim beauties as ever taunted a gallant; Tenor John Alexander and Baritone Mac Morgan sang warmly as the two gentlemen, who conclude: "Women cannot be faithful . . . You have to take them as they are." The production-light, stylized, and done as a great sunny joke-was a tribute...
Recession. Optimistic over the week's economic reports, the President preached less hurry-up spending, quietly opposed any quick tax cut, inspired G.O.P. congressional leaders to brace at last against the avalanche of Democratic antirecession bills and win their biggest legislative battle of the session...
...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...
...Minuteman development under way right now and the system itself operational by July 1962. Flash estimate cost of 4,000 Minuteman missiles: $3½ billion. McElroy's decision, taken after consultation with his advisory panel, was to order the Air Force to go ahead-and to brace himself for the ruling that may ultimately have to be made between the Navy's Polaris and the Air Force's Minuteman...
...crash near Lisbon in 1943 all but ended the big-time careers of throaty Singer Jane (With a Song in My Heart) Froman and Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, both bound overseas to entertain troops. It was five years before Jane could walk again without crutches (she still wears an iron brace on one leg). By gritty determination Gypsy made her crippled left hand play an accordion again, never completely regained her former skill. So far, in compensation for physical injuries, each entertainer has collected from Pan Am a piddling $8,300-maximum allowable damages, under a 1929 treaty, for injuries suffered...