Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strive to overcome all obstacles and get a college degree and then have to run an elevator?" he asks. "Because we simply cannot base our possibilities on present limitations. They might be swept away tomorrow by the president of the company, and then it would be too late for preparation...
...wolf and it's my night to howl." For a while, in the early 20th century, the wolf howls seemed to be drowned out by ragtime and its successors; square dancing was not revived in a big way until the 1930s, when the late Dr. Lloyd Shaw formed a dance school in Colorado Springs, organized the famed Cheyenne Mountain Dancers. Since then, square dancing has grown every year as popular entertainment, with about 10,000 callers now active (the best of them make as much as $150 a night) and two dozen record companies providing recorded calls. There...
Circus Minimus. Bill's clients, mainly young English, Australian and American couples, listen while he reminisces about how he introduced the late Sultan of Johore to the sweet mysteries of bourbon whisky, nod politely when Bill pontificates about modern pop music. Rock 'n' roll and all that jazz, he says, are "just a rehash of the old stuff, what used to be the Texas Tommy, the Bunny Hug and the Grizzly Bear...
...find "anything like this going on in America.") Carles began painting and repainting the same canvases until they were too heavy to lift. The World War II migration of Paris painters -Chagall, Mondrian et al.-to Manhattan finally produced the understanding audience Carles longed for, but it was too late. In 1941 Carles suffered a stroke, and though he lingered on until his death at 70 in 1952, he never painted again. Said his daughter, Painter Mercedes Matter, "His entire work was characterized by this impetuous moving on toward what he perceived further ahead. From one point of view...
...comes, Lieut. Joseph G. demons Jr. (Gregory Peck), in charge of King Company, subtracts about 60 casualties from his original force of 135 fighting men, and grimly thanks God that 62 men of Love Company will be coming up any minute. But when Love Company does arrive, some hours late, it brings only ten men; the rest are dead, wounded or missing...