Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave us too few 'yesses' but their 'noes' were said with grace," remarked a Latin American delegate to the inter-American economic conference at Rio. To the end last week, the U.S. delegation stuck amicably but steadfastly to the main line laid down at the beginning by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey: a promise of "expanded" loans from the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, together with an urgent recommendation that the Latin nations try to attract more private U.S. capital...
...mixing self-pity and the bottle. He is, as his wife says, a "cunning drunkard," and he camouflages his self-destructive path with martyrdom on one hand and penitence on the other. His main trouble is that there are two people who believe in him: his wife Georgie (Grace Kelly), who is too strong for her husband and too weak for her own good, and Broadway Director Bernie Dodd (William Holden), who has to fight both Elgins to give Frank a try at the lead in a new play...
Here and there in his earliest work, the teen-age poet experiments with the echoes of Byron and Coleridge that gave grace to such later ethereal nonsense as the White Knight's song in Through the Looking-Glass-a minor classic if read through half-closed eyes in a willing suspension of common sense. In Clara, young Carroll writes...
...would be a misconception, however, to assume that merely because New Haven is smaller than Boston that the medical facilities open to Yale are automatically inferior to those of Harvard. Grace-New Haven Community Hospital...
Rear Window. Hot and cold flashes of kissing and killing, as Alfred Hitchcock lets Jimmy Stewart, Grace Kelly and the customer get the eavesdrop on a murderer (TIME...