Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civil service monster lyin' flat on the ground. I see the Democratic Party standin' over it with foot on its neck and wearin' the crown of victory. I see Thomas Jefferson lookin' out from a cloud and sayin', 'Give him another sockdologer: finish him.' And I see millions of men wavin' their hats and singin', 'Glory Hallelujah...
MICHELANGELO complained about noise and marble dust in our profession," says Sculptor David Smith, "but I finish the day looking like a grease monkey." Sculptor Smith's complaint reflects the rise of a new phenomenon in the art world: a flood of wire and metal shapes that is turning many a sculptor's studio into something resembling a blacksmith's shop, where the oxyacetylene torch has replaced the hammer and chisel, a welder's mask the smock...
...Only in Los Angeles, with its oil and movie millions, says Connie Hilton, could he build a place like the Beverly Hilton. From start to finish, it has been his own special baby. To make sure that everything goes just right at the opening, Hilton even worked up a 58-page script, plotting every move, allocating every magnum of Besserat de Bellefon champagne, with all the pomp and precision of a Hollywood extravaganza. On buses from the airport, there will be guitarists and champagne; as the guests tour through the Red Lion Bar, a replica of an 11th century English...
...midwinter, and Martin Whitford Marion, manager of the Chicago White Sox, was already lost in a bright dream of spring. His team, he announced with admirable brevity, was going to win the American League pennant. Sportswriters snickered. It would be a close race all right. Maybe the Sox would finish third-after the Yanks and the Indians...
...memory of "life and compassion, and ... the deep gentle warmth of her surrendering to him." Yet, devoid of identity, Lieut. Ripault remains stubbornly alive. There were thousands like him; he takes on stature as he suggests their struggle to survive. And like those others, the navigator comes back to finish the fight. Because he is attracted to the weak, he chooses to fly with a pilot who is so scared that he cannot see the field lights when he leaves on a night mission. And now, as love cures the navigator, so it is Ripault's confidence that makes...