Word: coasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also discussion of beginning this compromise program in the Freshman Dean's Office, to avoid what Dean Monro calls "Little Gold Coasts in the Yard." This difficulty has always existed, and when freshmen move into Wigglesworth again next year, the problem will be even greater, since Wigglesworth used to be the "Gold Coast" of the Yard...
President Alberto Lleras Camargo called a state of siege and sent 15 armored cars and halftracks to ring the house where ex-Dictator Rojas has been living since he was allowed home from exile two months ago. The troops hauled Rojas out, flew him to the coast, put him aboard the frigate Capitán Tono for a Caribbean cruise of indefinite duration...
...preperformance jitters and tune up his musical perception, German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau packs his luggage with a few tested literary tranquilizers: some volumes of poetry, selected detective stories, classics such as Crime and Punishment. As he wound up his third U.S. tour last week on the West Coast, nobody thought to ask him whether he was stoking his emotional fires on Donne or Dostoevsky or Dashiell Hammett. What mattered was that he was in top vocal form, and that meant that he was giving his audiences the most moving performances of German lieder to be heard in the world...
...scene is set in a proper little horror of a boardinghouse in a glum old watering place on the Channel coast of England. The proprietor (Wendy Hiller) is a sensible, good-tempered spinster, but she has her hands full. She has developed a personal complication with the star boarder (Burt Lancaster), a writer fellow from America who is bound he will make an honest woman of her-until one day his ex-wife (Rita Hayworth) comes slinking in the front door...
High Wages. Even so, the boycott was more of a success than a failure. In the U.S. 16 unions, including the National Maritime Union, the Seafarers' International Union and James R. Hoffa's Teamsters, banded together to tie up PanLibHonCo ships, primarily in East Coast and Southern ports...