Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orderly approach to his job begins for Vance shortly after 5 on weekday mornings, when he awakens in his family's rented two-story brick colonial home in Northwest Washington. He does exercises to strengthen his back, which once afflicted him so sorely that his wife Grace had to tie his shoes. An unimposing black Ford reaches the house in time to get him to his office on the State Department's seventh-floor "mahogany row" at 6 on some mornings, 7 at the latest. By the time Vance arrives, two of his special assistants have already spent an hour...
...bustard's an exquisite fowl With minimal reason to growl: He escapes what would be Illegitimacy By grace of a fortunate vowel...
Fitzgerald suffered the greatest pain-and possessed the most generous memory. His letter requesting that his name be removed from The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a masterpiece of wounded pride, exhibiting a grace under pressures more trying than Papa's wars or big-game hunts...
...whisks his characters about with a wand of madness, he also displays surgical detachment in dissecting the foibles of the French middle class. The men tend to be pompous hypocrites. The women seek out opportunities for sexual revenge but are coy about entering the beds they have promised to grace. Not exclusively French...
...Purcell piece; their playing, like that of the high woodwinds and the timpani, was clean and light. The orchestra and its conductor, as well as the soloist, showed an acute awareness of the unique and difficult problems posed by Mozart, and responded to those challenges with intelligence and grace...