Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frame up a case, a Peronista-packed Parliamentary Commission had dug through La Prensa's files for a month in search of irregularities. Pickings were evidently slim. The worst crime the commission could find to charge against the newspaper was that it used the United Press news service, and paid the U.P. $8,000 a week; that proved that La Prensa was a foreign-bossed enterprise...
Tilted & Contorted. A prize pupil of Twelve-Tonalist Arnold SchÖnberg, Berg set his opera in the tilted frame of atonality, or better, non-tonality-with no fixed key as a point of reference, or familiar chordal relationships. In his huge (110 pieces), often brassy orchestration, he painted warmly and painstakingly, missing no musical detail that would illuminate a character or a scene...
...Beliefs Imply Action." It took Pastor George two days to get the police to do anything about it. When a police captain was finally assigned to investigate the place, and found gambling going on, he promptly left to get help. But George blocked the exit with his 205-lb. frame and nobody even tried to escape. Next morning, the exploit made the headlines, and letters began to pour in supporting his one-man crusade. For a week he patrolled the gambling and red-light belts each night, but the underworld seemed to have gone out of business...
...visitors surprised the Crimson, who expected an easy win, but trailing 1 to 0 going into the second frame, Harvard reacted to meeting a good team by playing cooperative ball. Captain Rick Hudner belted in the first Crimson tally and added four assists to help put the home team ahead, 6 to 2, at the half...
Curtis scored twice and Aiello once in the second stanza, and Deerfield shot four past goalie Larry Ratner, the half ending with the visitors ahead 8 to 5. The score remained the same in the third period, but in the final frame Deerfield sank four while midfielder Phil Waring scored once for the Yardlings...