Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the ties that for seven years have bound the Alliance-Malays, the self-sufficient and aloof Chinese, and the Indians-began to fray. The ties held only when the Tengku proved that under his bland exterior he can be a hard man indeed. Trouble began over how the Alliance would distribute its candidates for the 104 parliamentary seats in next month's federal elections. Word got out that the Tengku would give the Indian minority half a dozen seats, the Chinese (who represent 40% of the population) would get 28 seats, and the rest would...
...field recently waterlogged by spring rains, Britain's polo season got into full swing with Prince Philip leading the Windsor Park team to a 4-to-3½-goal victory over Ascot. Philip scored a goal, also took a tumble from his mount in the fray. Among the royal onlookers were Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Greece, and bonny Prince Charles, 10, a husky broth of a lad in zipper jacket and boots...
...Miami." Little old middling-good Miami has beaten other teams, too. Sorry we can't play Yale or the other little middling Ivy schools, but we hate to see a lopsided score. Miami could spot any Ivy League team a touchdown or more and walk away from the fray with a victory. R. D. "BEN" LAIME Miami '60 Oxford, Ohio...
...allowing the getaway, and began strangling him. "Violent revolution," cried the secretary-general of the Socialists, "is the only road to power!" As members and their male secretaries began flailing away at one another, 300 left-wing students forced their way into the building to join the fray. And where was Kishi? "In the toilet," someone said. The Socialists headed for the men's room to get their man. He was not there. As soon as he heard the bell go off, he had sneaked away home...
Above all, she has preserved the remarkable instrument of her voice in all its original power and glory. While other singers' voices begin to fray, Tebaldi's only grows more refulgent with the years. "A career," says Tebaldi's friend Licia Albanese, "should be slow, taken quietly. Renata is a quiet person. And she takes the singing quiet. She is right. It must...