Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...
...spokesman for the Planning Commission said authorities have already begun negotiating for lands to be used for the proposed surface lines. He added that Metropolitan District Commission land west of the Alewife Brook Parkway has been reserved for a transit terminal...
...golfer's score zooming, but Ike's game stood up well during the early weeks of his campaign when he was still able to get in an occasional round. (His best scores: an 84 at Denver's Cherry Hills Club, an 81 at the Blind Brook Country Club in New York's Westchester County.) Last week the effects of his recent layoff showed up in the 93 he shot on his first round for score at Augusta. Glumly the President-elect pronounced himself "emphatically not happy...
...producer had said-and the newspaper quoted him: "Romeo and Juliet is not a play for aging prima donnas. Juliet should be played by a girl of 14." Producer Peter Brook was only half-serious about wanting a child-Juliet; he was mostly trying to attract attention to his forthcoming season at Stratford-on-Avon's Memorial Theater. But next morning his phone rang and a breathless voice said: "My name is Claire Bloom. It said in the papers that you wanted a girl of 14 to play Juliet...
...Producer Brook asked her to come and see him. He gravely explained to the child -who, nevertheless, looked considerably older than her 14 years-that what he was really after was an experienced actress who might possibly pass for the age of Shakespeare's Juliet.* He now admits: "Little did I realize I was talking to exactly the girl I wanted, but just a few years too early...