Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan commission. But in Athens, U.S. missions knew that the crisis might easily arrive before the commission. Said one U.S. Army officer, back from a long look at the frontiers: "We've got to make up our minds damned quick whether we are going to fire or fall back...
...Manhattan, too, Composer Strauss was having his innings. Last winter, the up-&-coming New York City Opera Company successfully revived Strauss's 1912 opera Ariadne auf Naxos, never before heard in New York. Last week, for this fall's first performance of Ariadne, the City Opera unwrapped two shining new stars named Wilma Spence and Suzy Morris...
...lecture tour 16 years later, when the chance came for another African "rescue." Emin Pasha, the German-born Governor of the Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
...same time, Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldberg '48 disclosed that the Fund's door-to-door canvass had reaped more than $1500 to date, elevating the total for this fall's drive to approximately...
...This fall, with new courts, all but two of last year's Varsity, plus some promising new talent, Barnaby is seeing his long-range plans begin to bear fruit. Top-seeded Ted Backe is back, as are Bill Wightman, Steve Prati, and Howio Swartzman, all dependable in last spring's battles...