Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon met a pretty young freshman. Ruth Johannesmeyer. Carrying almost twice the normal academic load to make up for the years he had lost in the antarctic, busy writing a book (A Boy Scout with Byrd) and lecturing before dazzled Scouts and service clubs, he carried on a desultory courtship. But one night he was enticed to a college dance, and as he struggled happily through the steps, a sudden thought struck him: "My God, so this is why people like to dance...
Shortly thereafter, the French made a basic political decision: courtship of the Arabs was over. From then on, France set to work to woo Israel, the Arabs' enemy. Menachim Beigin, onetime terrorist and leader of Israel's hot-headed Herut party, visited Paris and was invited to address the Chamber of Deputies?an unprecedented honor for an opposition politician of a foreign country. Secretly, France shipped Israel an extra 30 Mystere jet fighters. On Sept. 23, Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion joyfully proclaimed that Israel had at last found "a true ally." (The U.S. embassy in Israel sent round...
...continuity is particularly important because not all of the movie could be shot at the real reef in the Bahamas. The group used Marineland's tanks, for instance, to photograph the birth of 200 sea horses from their father's brood pouch. This sequence, together with those of octupus courtship, the pistol shrimp's theft of an arrow crab's meal, and the molting of a spiny lobster's skin-skeleton somehow make a whole...
Wagner met and married Margaret Marie McTague, the Catholic daughter of Irish-born parents (during their courtship he almost lost her by taking her to Feltmans Restaurant on Coney Island and ordering steaks-only to be briskly informed that it was Friday night). When their only son was christened, Tammany District Leader Mike Cosgrove stood in as godfather-and Young Bob has never since been far removed from political influences...
...Swan. Grace Kelly in a royal courtship gets a witty assist from Actor Alec Guinness and Playwright Ferenc Molnar (TIME, April...