Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the opera, Director Halasz got even more than he expected. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "There is surely no cause for despair about the future of opera in the U.S. with such gifted fresh talent entering the field." Added the New York Times: "Miss Spence has a voice of both sweetness and power.... Voices of [Suzy Morris'] caliber are said to be almost nonexistent in this country, but here was a singer who produced tones of opulence, power, wide range. . . . Assuming she has some way to get experience, she could be a prima donna worthy...
...Francisco this week would come the vanguard of the dead from the Pacific: 2,992 from Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peleliu and Iwo Jima.* From Africa in a few weeks would begin another funeral procession. Soon every U.S. city and town, almost every crossroads hamlet, would have a fresh reminder of the price of peace...
...Biddle boy [Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia] is quite crazy, fresh and stupid, he has been boot-boxed once and threatened to be pumped* several times. . . . My tail is better but the hard benches hurt it a little. I rub it with Arnica but it is not easy. . . . The only ball I received I nobly missed, and it landed biff! on my stomach, to the great annoyance of that intricate organ, and to the great delight of all present. ... I should very much like a red turtle neck sweater...
...police-ridden Sofia, the three Americans had to act surreptitiously. Quietly they bought a funeral wreath. They waited until shortly before they were due to leave Bulgaria by plane. Then they put the wreath in a jeep, headed for the airport, but turned off to a cemetery. On the fresh, unmarked grave of Nikola Petkoff, executed eight days before for his opposition to Bulgaria's Communist-dominated Government (TIME, Oct. 6), they laid the wreath. Each spoke a few words in memory "of one of the greatest democrats of all time...
...Carey's project prospered from the start. Baltimore parents were delighted with the Country School's broad lawns, surrounded by deep woods. They even accepted the fresh air fad of 1901, when classrooms were built without any glass in the windows. Boys attended class in woolens and mufflers, keeping their feet on bricks which had been heated in a furnace. The boys fared well (the fresh air, it was claimed, enabled them to do two years' work in one). But constant colds among the faculty finally ended the experiment...