Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vallauris, famed Painter Pablo Picasso, topped off by a matador's hat, cheered the festivities with his old friend, France's oddball Poet-Playwright Jean Cocteau. Because French tradition opposes bullfighters actually killing their beasts, Vallauris was deathless, but Spanish-born Aficionado Picasso seemed to enjoy the fray just as much as if the arena were awash with gore...
...prefabricated nylon tube to replace a damaged femoral artery. Within a month after the operation at the Medical College of Alabama, the patient had good circulation in his foot. Unlike hand-fashioned fabric arteries, the new model (produced by Decatur, Ala.'s Chemstrand Corp.) does not fray or kink, thus does not cause "wrinkle thrombosis...
Stepping onto the visitors gallery, she shouted: "Boys! Don't cat that infernal stuff. It's poison." The students replied by tossing cigars and cigarettes toward Carrie, but the Kansas hatchet-swinger refused to give up and descended into the fray. She slapped faces, seized cigars and pipes, tried to sell hatches for her crusade, and left only after 2,000 stamping students forced her back onto the electric car for Boston...
...vigor of the debate began to tell on Adenauer. Late on the second day, when he returned to the fray, his 78 years weighed heavily. He based an attack on Ollenhauer on a statement that the latter had not made, and when the error was pointed out, would not retreat. Socialists hooted and yelled; in the confusion, the Chancellor lost the thread of his discourse. He bumbled, contradicted himself and flubbed questions that were thrown at him. When he sat down, Socialist Carlo Schmidt, who led the opposition assault, crowed to a colleague: "I think I won by a technical...
...which Senators debated Far Eastern problems. Said Welker: "The Senator from Indiana [Republican Homer Capehart] threw out of the broadcasting studio into my arms the Senator from Minnesota [Democrat Hubert Humphrey], a friend of mine. The Senator from New York [Democrat Herbert Lehman] then decided to get into the fray, on the back of the Senator from Indiana. He was, in turn, thrown back into the studio. The late Senator Taft-I never knew he came from the West-bulldogged the Senator from New York, took him around the head and led him out; and soon thereafter, peace and quiet...