Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into this situation strode Mario Vargas. He was plump, but with the telltale flush still on his cheeks. He argued with his officer friends for compromise. "Things have changed," he was told. Vargas decided to go along with them. Then tanks rumbled down Caracas' narrow, hilly streets, truckfuls of steel-helmeted soldiers screeched up before Miraflores. In a matter of 30 minutes, troops had occupied every important building and intersection in the city...
Edward Johnson, harassed general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Co., remembering what happened at last year's opening night (those newspaper pictures of diamond-encrusted dowagers with feet on table), had hopes that things would go better this year. In a pleading letter to editors, Johnson noted that last year reporters and photographers had emphasized "undignified incidents and poses." It was particularly distressing because "neither the episodes nor the individuals involved represented the ideals of the Metropolitan nor the artistic purpose it seeks to serve...
...with mincing little steps, and never appeared on the lecture platform except in morning coat and striped trousers. He always claimed to hate lecturing ("Why do we do it? Why do we do it?") But scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church was so crowded that the Cambridge Review commented...
...wife wanted to go bowling that evening, so Henry Toy Jr., a Du Pont executive, went to the Parent-Teacher Association meeting himself. He learned a thing or two. The public school in Oak Grove, Del., where his five-year-old son went, was so crowded that the kids had to wait in line to get into the bathroom. Were conditions that bad in other Delaware schools? He learned that they were generally far worse...
...boxing's perennial bad boy, had run out on his contract. The promoter, who had spent $9,000 in advertising the fight, was annoyed, and said so. Rocky's manager went hunting for his missing boy. When he found him in Brooklyn, he begged him to go back to California and fight. But Rocky said...