Word: bring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slicks & Gusts. But the 500 is no joy ride. One slip, one tiny miscalculation, a sudden gust of wind, an oil slick on the track-any of these, at high speed, can bring death; the track's pavement and rails are covered with skid marks and paint scratches left by skidding, hurtling cars. In 50 years of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 50 people have died...
...plumber's helper. He played in troop shows for the R.A.F., parlayed a 1954 one-shot on the BBC's Television Music Hall into his own show, became Britain's top-rated comedian. An even more striking one-shot: his decision to ask his agent to bring some TV films to Perry Como, who as producer of Berle's show was brooding about how to fill Berle's summer air time. Assured of employment until October at a fat U.S. TV salary. Entertainer King might even be able to cash in on the craze...
Heuvelmans believes that many parts of the earth have been explored so superficially that they may contain all sorts of creatures unknown to science. Explorers glimpse them, perhaps bring back a few strips of skin or a blurry photograph, and are greeted with skepticism or accused of attempting a hoax. The pygmy hippopotamus of West Africa has been seen repeatedly since the 1840s. Skulls were brought out for study, and a young one actually lived several weeks in the Dublin zoo. But for 50 years authorities refused to accept it as a real and new genus...
...late, famed Nobel prizewinner Undset (she died in 1949) writes of desperate Norwegian spinsters who are roughly used by all who know them, of babies who bring brief happiness to love-starved households and then sicken and die, of people who hesitate to rescue others for fear of being responsible for the lives they save. The conclusion of each sweetly-sad story is usually damp with tears: Thjodolf ends with its heroine reeling to her bed, where "the weeping came, bitter and burning"; Simonsen ends with its hero on a train speeding away from his loved ones forever: "He wiped...
...title notwithstanding, Gypsy is a singularly sobersided affair until midway in Act II, when a trio of tassel-tossing campaigners bump, grind and bring down the house in an indelicate air for the G-string called You Gotta Have a Gimmick. Burlesque may have killed vaudeville, but a lot more of it might cure Gypsy...