Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bounds. In Huntington, W.Va., arrested after trying to break into a store, recently paroled Jackie Henry told police he was a member of the Moundsville Penitentiary basketball team and was anxious to get back and finish the season...
...battle of Alexander and Darius at Gaugamela. Napoleon once confiscated the painting, and reportedly hung it in his bathroom at Saint Cloud. Five feet high and painted in the meticulous lapidary manner of a miniature throughout, the picture so absorbed Altdorfer that in order to be free to finish it, he refused appointment to an important political post in the free city of Regensburg, his native town. Altdorfer put a cityscape very like that of Regensburg in the background of the battle, and treated the whole classical event as if it had happened in his own time and place...
...yanked two strands of Mezzo Belleri's braids out by the roots; or the occasion, in Liszt's rarely performed Saint Elizabeth, when one soldier lost his tights, causing Conductor Artur Bodanzky to go into such a seizure of laughter that the orchestra had to finish the scene by itself. During half a century, Mezzo Belleri has also developed some unshakable critical judgments. Elizabeth Rethberg was "absolutely the greatest soprano" she ever heard, while Margarete Matzenauer was "the mezzo of the ages." As for Lauritz Melchior, "I will never hear another Lohengrin like...
...from Cortina, Italy. Eugenio Monti, 32, broke both legs in a skiing accident years ago; one cheek is deeply scarred from a splintering crash two years ago at St. Moritz, when his sled turned a double-somersault. "Brakes?" snorts Monti. "You should use them only to stop at the finish...
...morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. As a substitute, subscribers had the offer of a new weekly tabloid published by the Portland Interunion Newspaper Committee in a desperate attempt to win a strike that was already three months old. During those three months, the dispute had become a finish fight, eyed closely by printing-craft union men and newspaper publishers all over the U.S. At stake: the capability of newspapers, using modern equipment, to get along with fewer of the skilled hands of the powerful, featherbed-prone printing-craft unions...