Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drapery covering the frozen hero began to tear as it was raised. Stagehands began to panic, but Welles rose to the occasion: "Continuez! Continuez!" he yelled. "Let it tear! C'est magnifique!" The audience gave Welles an ovation. But in later performances, the company had to be content with an untorn drapery; the first-night tear was too hard to duplicate...
...what they are looking for. Said one of them last week: "In the teachings of the Bible there are principles of ethics and morals on which can be constructed a way of life more satisfying than the rabbis' interpretations with which our grandparents had to be content." Added another: "Every nation needs its traditions, but we modern Israelis can't accept the traditionalism of the Torah-soaked ghettos...
Twice during his career, El Sapo was able to kill to his heart's content, quite legally. He was an army private during General Saturnino Cedillo's rebellion of 1938. "I killed Cedillistas on sight," he remembers with satisfaction. Later, when Sinarquistas (local Fascists) rioted in León, he had the pleasure of working the rioters over with a machine gun. "Blood ran that day!" he recalls proudly...
...been left behind during a presidential tour of the Aleutians, and a destroyer had been dispatched 1,000 miles just to bring the dog home. For F.D.R., this was a golden opportunity to add a homey touch to his famed Teamsters' Union address: "Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons . . . They now include my little dog Fala...
...gifts (Thirty-Six Poems, Selected Poems, 1923-1943), took more than seven years, off & on, to write this book. But for all the labor and the love he spent, it is a narrative poem which almost never achieves the emotional disturbance and enlightenment of true poetry, is too often content with such smothering lines...