Word: cellars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago, unidentified saboteurs bunglingly attempted to dynamite Guatemalan power plants. A few days later, three plainclothesmen from the civil guard knocked on the door of the Quiñónez house in Guatemala City. After searching the place from attic to cellar, they asked Mario, 24, and his brother Edgar, 20, to go with them. Mario asked to see the warrants for their arrest. Instead of warrants, the policemen showed their guns. The brothers went along...
Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Act II (Cesare Siepi, the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas Scherman conducting; Columbia). The whole act of this richly Russian score is devoted to the miser's gold-gloating monologue in his cellar. Basso Siepi sings it resonantly in poorly articulated English. The orchestra sounds full-bodied, well-schooled...
Once arrested, "we were scarcely across the threshold of the police station, when we were seized by 20 gendarmes. They hit us with their fists and cudgels; when we were knocked down, they picked us up and started again . . . Then they put us in the cellar. We could only hold each other's hand...
...downing Martinis ("Très sec, avec le Gordon's gin") at Harry's New York Bar, they would always find some familiar face. They took their cigars and baby Brownies into Sacré-Coeur, climbed to the top of Notre Dame, brushed shoulders with Bohemia in cellar nightclubs on the Left Bank, gave free advice to street artists painting in Montmartre. They drove down the Loire valley searching out new restaurants and old châteaux (now floodlit at night for American eyes), and tried not to notice the scrawled Communist signs, "Americans, go home...
...emotional observer, indeed, is forced to the conclusion that only the abysmal showing the Tigers have made could have persuaded them to consent to the deal. Nothing but a desperate Detroit hope that "new blood"--no matter what type--would lift the Bengals out of the cellar could ever have brought about the deal...