Word: freed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank? The answer: Momism. Old Grandma Holt dominated her married son, his gentle wife and their two young sons. Just as daddy is about to break from the Milquetoast mold, he is kicked in the head by a horse and killed. By the time the boys are freed by Grandma's own death, one is too crushed to stand up to life, the other is beginning to show that he has inherited some of Grandma's tyranny. Both are attracted to the same lusty Italian opera singer, and when she bears a child, neither brother knows which...
Shortcomings of this nature become so important, of course, only in music like lieder, where they play a crucial part in the composer's intent. In Negro spirituals, which formed the second part of the program, "interpretive" values become uppermost. Once freed from demands beyond his technique, Harkless relaxed and gave really moving renditions. Three of the songs were somewhat marred by self-conscious accompaniments, but the two selections sung without piano provided magnificent examples of our native music performed with understanding and deep affection...
...principle of rearming West Germany and admitting it to NATO. ¶ Soften the big Socialist Party (105 Assembly seats) for an almost certain switch from hostile noncooperation to participation in the Mendes government. ¶ Win from fading Charles de Gaulle the promise that his followers will soon be freed to support Mendes and his program for France...
...married 20-year-old Z. (for Zachary) Smith Reynolds, heir to a $28 million cigarette (Camels) fortune. Eight months later, he was shot through the head at a drunken party. With a splash of tabloid headlines, Libby and Reynolds' male secretary were indicted for murder, then freed for lack of evidence. Six months after his father died, Christopher Smith ("Topper") Reynolds was born. He inherited $7,000,000 (Libby...
Another problem rests not with Britons, but the U.S. Butler has insisted that the U.S. must lower its tariff barriers before convertibility can be made safe for Britain. If trade were freed and the pound made fully convertible, officials estimate that British buyers would snap up nearly $1 billion more of U.S. goods. The British economy could not stand the strain unless, in return, exports to the U.S. and Canada expanded by a comparable amount...