Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mercer Island divided bitterly over Stenhouse. Three of his four fellow board members called on him to resign. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather resign and crawl into a hole somewhere." Late last month some 250 islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...Scene 2 is all ready to be pulled into place: three sideshow stalls, a circular bandstand, the entrance to the Bacchus Inn. The chorus files in and Chorus Master Walter Taussig mounts a stepladder that is steadied by a stagehand. When he reaches eye level with a small hole in the canvas sidewall of Faust's study-through which he will be able to watch the conductor-Taussig opens his score, focuses a battery light on it and waits...
...Mephisto flourishes his cane. Behind the scenery, backstage spots begin to glow, lighting Singer Conner; as a result, Faust and the audience see the vision of Marguerite through a scrimmed hole in the middle of Faust's bookcase. Faust, enraptured, signs away his soul to the Devil, drinks the potion to restore his youth. While Mephisto struts about flashing his cape to distract the audience, Faust rips off his old-man disguise and springs forward as a young...
...defense has dominated world affairs-from budgets to foreign policy-for more than 15 years. Nonetheless, the nation's academicians still brush off the study of war as a matter best left to professional military men. Result: a hard-to-fill hole in the education of civilians who shape U.S. policy at home and abroad...
...black hole of a school room, jampacked with 35 surly inmates, Teacher Ford spends all his energies in the fight to keep the barest sort of order. He humors, scolds, tries to entice interest. No luck. When he dares to discipline, one young hoodlum asks: "You ever try to fight 35 guys at one time, Teach...