Word: fullnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salary . . ." Placed on public view for the first time at week's end, the document bears witness anew to the honesty of Honest Abe. Inaugurated on March 4, 1861, Lincoln decided that his pay ($25,000 a year) should not have begun until the following day, his first full day in office. So he altered "first of the month" to "fifth," thus saved the taxpayers a tidy...
...ChooChoo. For the most part, the Russian press played the Nixon visit against a backdrop of stories highly critical of the U.S. exhibition ("What the Exhibition Conceals"), and others decrying U.S. unemployment and deficiencies in the U.S. medical profession. Nixon's speech opening the exhibition was carried in full, together with some hot-tempered letters from readers: "It is not necessary to exaggerate, Mr. Nixon...
This year's festival was newly located in an aqua, gold and navy tent (capacity 2,000) near Bear Mountain, only an hour's drive from Manhattan. From season's start the tent was jammed to capacity, and the programs included such stimulating fare as a full-stage production of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a production of Stravinsky's stately Oedipus Rex, conducted by Stokowski. Impresario Forest, who still clips profitable pharmaceutical coupons, thinks that in another summer or so the festival will pay its own way. Meantime, he is angling...
...struggled along trying to overcome weariness by thinking of the food I love"). Next, thrashing home on the last lap with furious half-strokes ("They give me speed but they really wind me"), Yamanaka lopped 2.4 sec. off Konrads' mark (4:19) for the 400 meters. Still full of swimming, he swam on the relay team that broke the 800 meters record of 8:21.6 by 2.9 sec., and finally, last week, Yamanaka capped his performance by tying the Japanese record of 56.4 sec. for the 100 meters...
...days of Buddha, this annual retreat had a practical purpose: farmers had complained that the master's disciples, wandering the countryside begging for alms, were trampling the newly sprouting rice plants, and the Lord Buddha ordered his priests to keep out of the way until the crop was full grown. As centuries passed, the practice turned into a kind of spiritual excursion that every Buddhist layman tried to enjoy, and eventually entering the temporary priesthood became a matter of course; laborers, businessmen, monarchs (King Phumiphon in 1956) went through the 90-day ritual. "It's like going...