Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down from the walls of the oval study came Franklin Roosevelt's Currier & Ives prints, his ship's clock. Grace Tully, who had been his secretary, called in the people who had been closest to him, gave each his choice of the knickknacks which had littered his desk...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...
...Transport Command and Naval Air Transport Service that they are now confident that they can meet Pan Am at its own globe-girdling game. On the thousands of route miles which the U.S. has strung around the world, some eight domestic lines, Pan Am, Pan American-Grace and American Export Airlines have flown the astronomical distance of 2,581,903,999 passenger miles on overseas routes since Pearl Harbor...
Admit some signs of grace...
...Eastern should acquire Grace's half control of Panagra, it would still not be free of arch-rival Pan Am. The reason: Pan Am owns the other half of Panagra...