Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge of the whirling hurricane crossed Kingston at 9:45 p.m.; for four roaring hours after that, it lashed the city's galvanized iron roofs and clapboard frame houses. Breadfruit, coconuts and avocados rained into the streets. In the harbor, six steamships were driven ashore. With the deafening winds came typical hurricane rains, 17 inches in a little more than five hours. It was the worst storm in Jamaica's wind-battered history...
While his classmates flew long, bitterly cold patrols at the front that winter, young Stalin sortied into Moscow. The city's finest tailors and bootmakers were called in to pad out his spindly frame, add a bit to his 5 ft. 3 in. height. Vasily shot up to captain, major, lieutenant colonel, then colonel. He cut quite a figure in actresses' dressing rooms...
...thought it would be necessary for Eisenhower to remain in Europe. The President hesitated a bit before answering. He did not think that the general's duties would interfere with things that might happen in 1952, said the President, if General Eisenhower happened to be in that frame of mind. Eisenhower will be guided by his sense of duty, the President went on. He is doing a magnificent job in Europe; the President said that he both hoped and believed Eisenhower would continue...
...Blood. With George Jones, also a former Tribune man, Raymond raised $40,000 to launch the daily Times. He drove his staff hard, drove himself harder. A good editor, said Raymond, needed "a constitution like the Wandering Jew's, a patience as inexhaustible as his frame, and a physical endurance equal to that of a victim of the Inquisition." His own 5 ft. 6 frame was slight, but he often worked twelve and 15 hours at a stretch, could keep writing even while listening to unrelated problems. "Get all of the news," he demanded. Much...
Feodor Chaliapin, the great basso, was a friend of a different stamp-one who devoured life with all the resources of his huge frame. As this was an expensive business, Chaliapin greatly resented being asked to give his services gratis. "Only little birds sing for nothing," he loved to say. But nothing pleased him more than to phone his friend, Pianist Rachmaninoff, and invite him to an all-night session of duets. One night when Chaliapin was in his cups, he fixed Bunin with a beady eye, and saying, "I think, Vanusha, that you are very tight indeed," humped...