Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite appearances, George Drew's government did not really fall; it was pushed. In power 19 months, its 37 members had managed to control the 90-seat House by grace of the Legislature's 16 Liberals. Then bumptious Liberal Leader Mitchell Frederick Hepburn had upset the applecart by teaming with teacherish Edward Bigelow ("Ted") Jolliffe and his 32 socialist CCFers...
Last week rival airline operators thought they knew what was in the wind. They guessed that: 1) W. R. Grace & Co., ship operators, were bidding the stock up in building up their holdings in Eastern; 2) Eastern in turn was set to buy Grace's 50% stock ownership in lusty money-making Pan American-Grace Airways...
Since McCormack heard and approved Christy Lynch, the young tenor has sung 30 recitals. McCormack graciously concedes Lynch a quality which he thinks almost as important as a fine voice: "A finely developed sense of humor-a tenor's saving grace...
...make the success complete, a virtually unknown cast of young hopefuls executes with competence and enthusiasm the work of young writers, Howard Richardson and William Berney, a young composer, Walter Hendl, and young directorial talent. Carol Stone looks delightfully untamed; Richard Hart darts through his witchery with fiery grace and makes the play's seriousness very credibly unaffected...
Light in the Darkness. There Nimitz found, in his own concise summation, "too many people and too much pessimism." His attitude toward his luckless predecessor, Kimmel, was that of a professional who sees a brother officer under the lash of defeat: "There, but for the grace...