Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday night game (as offensive to "religious people"), and the Chandler project (disowned by the owners) to hire Public Relations Expert Steve Hannagan for $50,000, plus $150,000 in expense money...
...fan: British Ballerina Moira (Red Shoes) Shearer, who after listening to a frantic chorus, asked Muggsy: "Tell me, do you find ballet dull...
...American spectator may go to the theatre to be entertained, in a manner somewhat more sophisticated than the movie fan. Long run hits such as "Harvey" or "Life With Father" are indicative of a craving for amusement. In France the attitude toward the theatre has always been quite different. The sage is the battleground of new ideas, the arena where literary and philosophical notions are presented to the public who witness the struggle and cheer the winner. The playwright becomes the carrier of the flag, being in and being the amker of his epoch. Most plays deal with controversial issues...
...answers to the other questions, the TV fan has to wrestle with the six-syllable words "compatibility" and "convertibility." Around these words swirled the fiercest arguments of the FCC hearings...
...Dwyer seemed a happy choice for a sunny job. Mexicans were complimented by his political prominence in the U.S., pleased that he is a Catholic, and tickled with his pretty wife and his appreciation of bullfighting. In the bullfighters' Café Tupinamba, a torero seriously explained, "A good fan of the bulls cannot be an imperialist."'And the ballad singers in buses and bars spread the news in a hastily composed corrido...