Word: gall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant...
...life-size," Whistler once said-and fewer still combine the gall, gallantry and genius with which Whistler fashioned a larger-than-life legend. Poet and Critic Horace (Amy Lowell) Gregory skirts the legend, feeling that many of the stories are in their anecdotage. He sacrifices color for perspective, but even a toned-down Whistler is no still life...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn, in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant. With Eva Marie Saint...
...Radcliffe seniors were elected to the Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Rowena M. Green, of Madison, Wisc., a concentrator in Biology; Gall W. Lapidus, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Government; Anne G. Tanner, of Baton Rouge, La., Social Relation; Barbara L. Talamo, of Washington, D.C., Biochemistry; Lise A. Vogel, of New York City, Mathematics; and Phyllis Williamson, of Providence, R.I., History and Literature...