Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conductor Sirpo abandoned his own conservatory in Finland when the Russians invaded in 1939 and headed for the U.S. Since 1945, he has been teaching at Portland's Presbyterian Lewis and Clark College, where as many as 70 students brave his celebrated sternness to play in his student orchestra. One reason: beneath the rigorous vigor lies a puckish streak that relieves the direst stress. For example, Sirpo was once felled on the podium by a minor stroke, and somebody shrieked that he had been shot. As the cops arrived, he regained his speech and muttered solemnly: "My wife...
...appreciate TIME publishing our communication about the work of this organization for the refugees in Free Viet Nam [May 23], Unfortunately, our wire used the wrong address. The contributions to aid these brave human beings who left everything behind to be free can be sent to Operation Brotherhood, 62 West 45th Street, New York...
...prize money meant as little to Suzy Volterra as the loss of her bet on Hafiz II. She had a winner for her husband's stables, and that was enough. Back in the saddling area, Alice Lady Derby congratulated her jockey on his fine ride and made brave plans for one more Derby...
Othello (Mercury; United Artists) has all over it the stamp of Orson Welles's brummagem genius. Is there a file of soldiers with spears or a brave display of banners? Depend on it, the camera will catch them sharply etched against...
...WAAC did not have full military status. Even the chaplains had to have special permission to distribute to WAACs the New Testaments that were issued routinely to servicemen. Moreover, WAACs who went overseas had no hospitalization or death benefits, and overseas volunteers were looked on as specially brave. Once, when Mrs. Hobby asked for volunteers, "there were 300 women in the room, of whom 298 volunteered upon the instant. At this, Director Hobby was unable to continue speaking and hastily sought privacy in a broom closet...