Word: gift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the University's ever-growing collection of dinosaur eggs will arrive from Paris by air today. Weighing 20 pounds, the egg is a gift from the French city of Aix-En-Provence...
Wesleyan co-captain Bo Freeman, playing at left half back, scored the other two Cardinal goals as the Crimson defense let up late in the game. The first of his scores was a gift from the officials, who called a highly-disputed (by both coaches) penalty kick for charging. The final goal of the afternon was scored as Freeman took a very good cross from his right wing and fooled Bagnoli completely...
...initial marker came when Tufts recovered a Crimson fumble and scored in five plays. A minute after the Tufts' kickoff Harvard fumbled again on the 35-yard stripe, and Tufts acknowledegd the gift by crossing the goal in eight more plays. The conversion was good...
...have-not economics is the endemic English intestinal bug of class resentment. Happily, none of this ever becomes a mere plight in man's clothing. Jimmy (extremely well played by Kenneth Haigh) is always real in himself, exasperatingly and vibrantly alive, and with a natural-sounding, real-life gift for witty and eloquent abuse...
Four Winds is rather like something by Noel Coward as adapted by a German moralist and retranslated into English. In a certain sense, through its own gift of tediousness and soggy small talk, it mirrors an expensively empty world. But its truths are the dreariest truisms, its gamut a mere shuttling between the plushy and the preachy. It gives no new wrinkle to the lowlifes in highlife. Only the jangled sharpness with which English Actress Ann Todd plays the heroine has any resonance; all else is a blur of echoes and a drone of words...