Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring skidded around North Carolina, snow-topped Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch breezed down in his private plane for a visit with two old friends, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine in Pinehurst, Marshall's haven of retirement...
...Most Demanding. He noted one failing that is so common he has an abbreviation for it. "Ltc" in Gutman's shorthand stands for "Liebestod complex," and refers to a tendency among contestants, particularly women, to choose the most demanding music. "They seem to think they haven't got a chance unless they sing something loud and dramatic," said Gutman. "These youngsters try to do things that shouldn't even be in their repertoire for another five or ten years...
Twenty-two years later Dorothy Day's books were still as simple, but the bill was not getting paid. She was unable to pay for modernizing her House of Hospitality, a haven and a source of food to the derelicts of Manhattan's Bowery but a firetrap to Manhattan's Fire Department. Even more pressing was a $250 fine imposed by the City of New York for her failure to comply with the fire regulations...
...freshman basketball team meets Yale in New Haven at 6:30 tonight in what should prove to be an evenly matched contest...
Official timekeeper John E. Lind clarified the situation somewhat tonight. In the New Haven Arena, the green light signalling the end of a period is not automatic, but is operated by the timekeeper, who lights it when the clock show no time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock time is left. Lind said he based his nogoal decision on the fact that "the clock showed 0:00 before the puck hit McVey's stick." McVey's subsequent shot, then, came after the game was over, and the manual delay in turning...