Word: coverer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maserati is an industrial concern of Modena, Italy, which has established an outstanding reputation as a manufacturer of precision tools and automobiles. Your statements that Maserati President Adolfo Orsi owed Credito Italiano, an Italian bank, $15,600, that he wrote a check with no funds to cover it and that the bank asked that he be declared bankrupt are untrue. So is your statement that Credito Italiano "sent the shamed Orsis into hiding"; we have been for many years and still are openly and actively engaged in the management of Maserati. No bankruptcy petition was ever instituted against Maserati...
...billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager...
...Freed and his frenetic fans, but could not prove it, since they nabbed nobody. Freed's defenders pointed out that the Arena area has been the site of frequent muggings in the past; the toughs might simply have used the crowds pouring out of the Arena as a cover...
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...technical equipment is superb. The enormous hands cover a twelve-note span. He has a dazzling warmup technique of playing swift scales in octaves and tenths with his hands crossed, a trick that he says does wonders to develop the left hand. When a friend told him about big-handed Soviet Pianist Richter's trick of playing tenths and simultaneously playing thirds between thumb and forefinger, Van immediately duplicated it, commented, "Aw, that's not hard." He plays Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with the cadenza that the pianist-composer rewrote for his own performances because...