Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPY TIME (RCA Victor). Can a successful world-traveled photographer ever find happiness settling down with a sincere schoolteacher in the small French-Canadian town of his birth? The answer is obvious, and so, too, are the music by John Kander and the lyrics by Fred Ebb from this routine Broadway show. Risking nothing, the songs accomplish little more. Star Robert Goulet comes across like a thin shadow of Maurice Chevalier. As one of the show's songs asks, "With Paris, Rome, Lisbon and Venice, why would anyone want to stay in St. Pierre?" Why, indeed...
...strategy of Czechoslovakia's passive resistance was summed up by a sign painted in downtown Prague: "Hate intelligently." As their morale started to ebb last week with each new sign that Russia had regained sway over their lives, Czechoslovaks were hating even more, but much of their sly resistance was gone. Like the underground TV crews, some of the leaders of defiance were on the run, and even the underground radio stations had given up broadcasting tips on how to make life miserable for the Russians. One station devoted 45 minutes to a reading on the life...
Along which moves the ebb and flow...
Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, who was instrumental in organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than...
...picture, and the late meticulous planner, General Douglas Mac-Arthur, who risked his reputation in carrying out the landing, would be pained indeed at your arbitrary postponement of the event. September 15, 1950, was the only date within months when the enormous tides at Inchon, some 36 feet from ebb to flood, crested sufficiently to permit the landing to be made-successfully, as this former Marine can gratefully attest from firsthand experience...