Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several weeks later they were married, but the marriage did not turn out to be what the doctor ordered. Milton was all set to live it up, but his wife proved to be an almost pathological stinge. Milt was a low-born lunk who still crossed his knife and fork on the plate when he finished his dinner, but his wife was the sort of girl who lusted after little French restaurants, where the soup tastes "like a prism," and she was always happy to tell him what Whistler had said to Oscar Wilde. She teased his tastes ("Does...
...always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never was a U.S. diplomat's remark more terrifyingly apt: "Every Israeli sleeps within 20 miles of an Arab knife...
...ordinarily temperamental, but at one rehearsal he went into a pet and refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated rage was uncontainable, and the rehearsal had to be canceled...
...biggest show, ABC's You Asked for It, depends less on Baker's voice than on his nerves. A TV program aimed at showing its viewers whatever they want to see, You Asked for It has required Baker to stand still while a knife-thrower ringed his body with blades, an archer sent steel-tipped arrows whistling through balloons held close to his side, and a marksman shot the ace of spades out of his hand. He has been hoisted head-high by Ada Ash, billed as "the world's strongest woman." As his show last week...
...knife-like junior also tied his own Crimson mark for the 50 this afternoon, sprinting to a 22.4. But again, against the amazing Blue this superior time was good enough for only a third place. Dyer once more pushed Aubrey and Gideonse to the peak performances of their careers, as Aubrey tied the Yale and Yale pool record with...