Word: lis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evening with Fred Astaire (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The dancing master, still loose as a goose at 59, launches on his first network TV flight; with him is Barrie Chase, lis new partner. In color...
...same need to dispel almost universal fear of death from thirst or privation. There are those brave, tragic figures who collapse by the side of the road and gasp: 'Go on without me. I can't make it.'" But millions of boys wore their fleur-de-lis emblems proudly, millions of parents watched astonished as their sons developed knowledge and skills never taught in schools, and the international motto "Be Prepared" became a household phrase...
...sake, is awed by such gestures. When Josh meets Miri, he is similarly drawn to her as an exotic, only to find that she is simpler and more straightforward than most American girls. The trio's relationship comes to a head when Lexy decides to make peace with lis father, and invites Josh to join Miri and himself for a summer stay at the family's New York country place. There Josh sees a half-enthralling, half-appalling sight, a patriarch in full possession of his powers, ordering women and children about as if that were...
...description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...
...Poland, and a Communist land mine in Indo-China killed his best friend, famed War Photographer Robert Capa, with whom Shim and France's Henri Cartier-Bresson founded he picture agency Magnum Photos Inc. Yet Shim, who replaced Capa as president of Magnum, was no combat specialist; lis most memorable pictures, collected in the UNESCO book Europe's Children, were compassionate shots of orphans in the rubble of post-World...