Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles of road, most of it straight as a pencil, stretched out to São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, and even across the jungle to Belém at the mouth of the Amazon. Morbidly afraid of dark rooms, elevators and airplanes, Niemeyer endured agony on his frequent plane trips to the capital ("It's shameful, but I can't help it"). He finally moved to Brasilia, where he dropped 19 Ibs. off an already lean frame...
...Acts were, according to the custom of the day, largely the composition of the author). Paul's style is so completely individual that scholars have no difficulty in identifying the letters bearing his name but not written by him.The words come in a rush, broken by frequent parenthetical asides, but though he was not trying to, he produced some of the most exalted passages in all Christian literature, e.g. (I Corinthians 13): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal...
...character-a classic Hollywood hunter who nevertheless "preferred to think of the women he embraced as sacred vessels,-potential mothers, rather than as what they obviously were." With less restraint than Hedda Hopper, the biographer names the vessels Mayer may or may not have embraced. On one of his frequent European talent safaris, reports Crowther, Mayer was completely entranced with an unknown Hungarian actress named Haj-massy; he signed her to a contract as Ilona Massey immediately after a dance floor accident, when a broken shoulder strap "exposed a great deal more than was normally intended of the actress...
Atrocity Target. The closeness of the election may keep Ceylon from a long-desired civil peace, for both leading parties are a long way from the 76 seats needed to form a government. But voters had at least decisively rejected the chaos and frequent strikes of Marxist and left-wing government. Most effective campaigner was the United Nationalists' leader, Dudley Shelton Senanayake, 47, who may become prime minister. In 1952 he had briefly succeeded his famous father, Don Stephen Senanayake (Ceylon's first Prime Minister), who died after a fall from a horse. Then the son had gone...
Have a Canal. Nationalist Boyd is also a frequent guest at parties thrown by Cuban Ambassador José Antonio Cabrera Vila, but the approach to Panama that Cabrera represents is somewhat less subtle than Tabei's. Last November, before the second invasion of the Canal Zone by flag-planting rioters, a reporter-photographer team from INRA harangued the Chiriqui province students who led the riots carrying a giant-sized portrait of Fidel Castro...