Word: flare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Margaret Yaugher, mezzo, as Dorabella, with her firm rich tones was a mainstay of the ensembles, and Mary Sindoni, her sister Fiordiligi, has the perfect combination of a strong, flexible soprano voice and a genuine flare for high comedy. The chorus was charming and vivacious, except when changing scenery, but when they sang all the world was young and in love and healthy...
...drive. Yastrzemski ate up 36 of them on bucks over the middle as John O'Brien, Dick Berdik, and Chuck Reischel cleared out the Yale line. A penalty set the Crimson back to the Yale 19 after Grant had picked up a crucial first down. But McCluskey fired a flare pass to Frank Ulcickas, who carried to the Yale...
...march. The massive (219 lbs. per man) Notre Dame line ripped gaping holes in the Spartan forward wall, gave Quarterback Huarte so much protection that he could have tied his shoe laces and still had time to pass. A screen to End Jack Snow gained 19 yds., a flare to Fullback Bob Merkle picked up 26. Then he turned Nick Eddy loose. In five carries, the 195-lb. halfback racked up 40 yds. and his second TD of the day. A pass to Snow was good for two extra points, and Notre Dame led at half time...
Conference Pitch. Night was falling as Chou and his six-man entourage arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. With him was Liu Shao-chi, China's President. In the flare of flashbulbs, Chou's face appeared hard and unyielding. Significantly, he was greeted by only half of Russia's new diarchy, an equally sour-faced Premier Aleksei Kosygin. There were no bear hugs for Chou, though Kosygin did bring a bouquet of flowers. Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home, possibly to show that Russia was not overeager and to keep the visit a formal matter...
Jenkins sent the committee an affidavit swearing that he "had no knowledge" of such an arrangement. But when the three Republicans on the nine-member investigating committee demanded that Jenkins be subpoenaed to testify, the Democrats turned them down cold. After the Baker flare-up, Jenkins withdrew even deeper into the shadows...