Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...
...know baseball best turned a collective cold shoulder on two of the fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...
...end of his eventful fortnight, Levant was negotiating with both CBS and NBC to go transcontinentally berserk on network next fall; he was also ranting affably with moviemakers interested in producing his screen biography. Of the recent turns in his labyrinthine career, Oscar offered a candid self-appraisal: "In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but, at my best, unapproachably great...
...completed only seven electronic compositions. He has also experimented with instrumental music, including his Piano Piece No. 11, which permits the pianist to play fragments in whatever order his eye falls on them but specifies that when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
...end of the five-hour operation, Marmer told the girl to wake up. She did, promptly asking: "Is everything O.K.? Can I have a drink? I'm so thirsty!" The technique, Marmer suggested, should be limited to patients aged seven to 14 because they are the most suggestible subjects, with their "heightened powers of imagination and their ability to play a role or create a fantasy...