Word: finished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
...first five hours of this. Security Council President Carlos Romulo wearily tried to shut Menon off, but the indefatigable Indian insisted that it would take him the better part of another session to finish his case. So far, Menon had kept his hair-trigger temper under control; but the following morning, when he discovered that the U.S. and four other powers were already circulating a resolution which began, "Having heard statements from representatives of the governments of India and Pakistan ..." Menon's control broke. In a fit of irritation he implied that Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon...
With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...
...Charlie Van Doren was painfully torn between going on again this week at the risk of losing some of his big stake to a new opponent, or getting out now that he has enough to finance a "snazzy sports car" and several free summers in which to finish a thesis on Poet William Cowper and write a novel. "Something about it gets you," he said...
...INDUSTRIAL CITY will rise along Mississippi River 30 miles upstream from New Orleans. William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp is break ing ground for $120 million townsite for 4,000 families, expects to finish first houses by July. Another $200 million will be invested in new plants there by Olin Revere Metals, Dow Chemical Co., Wyandotte Chemicals Corp., Kaiser Aluminum Corp...