Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London newspaper reported that German-born Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs, in a British prison since 1950 for passing scientific secrets to the Russians, has been asked by Britain's government to plunge right back into his original line of work (theoretical physics) after he is sprung next June. Fuchs, according to the report, would take his talents, and presumably his refurbished loyalties, to Canada...
...That's how we got Yakety Yak [1,000,000]. Mike was at the piano and I was making tea. He started an exciting riff, and right away I threw out: 'Take out the papers and the trash.' At once Mike came up with the second line: 'You don't get no spending cash.' I felt right away we had a hit-we had a little slice here that hadn't been touched...
...eleven porcelain rice bowls of different pitch, depending on size and thickness). The players of the tablas and jalatarang had their entrance cues but were otherwise free to improvise, if necessary, around Cowell's themes. It was a languorous, curiously hypnotic work, with a wavering melodic line that occasionally died away before syncopated flights of the tablas. Said one Indian observer: "A mood as lovely as twilight...
Divorced. Earl Russell Browder, 67, Kansas-born, sometime No. 1 U.S. Communist, 1936 and 1940 Communist candidate for U.S. President, who, following Moscow's sentiments, cooperated with capitalism during World War II, was purged when the party line shifted in 1946; by Gladys Browder, 67, whom he deserted in 1924; after 48 years of marriage, one son (Browder had three other sons by a Russian-born wife whom he married without troubling to get a U.S. divorce); in Kansas City, Kans...
...Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace and low. massive chimney as a central pivot. Wright began to project exuberant wings, bring balconies into living rooms, replace the dark corners with glass...