Word: lis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fired for Smoking. In trying to fix his trio in a modern perspective and yet do them justice, Hofstadter does not evade such criticism. He is often at lis best when throwing a few darts of his own. Beard's rendering of the Constitutional Convention, he suggests, makes the proceedings look like the secret and conspiratorial work of tycoons carving up some new banana republic...
...gets beaten up in rescuing her from her angry peasant family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz pianist in a honkytonk. A new complication is added when lis son finds him there and dismisses him contemptuously as a buffoon...
When it was over, makers of fleur-de-lis leather dried their soaked goods on the riverbanks, jewelers dug with their hands through tons of mud looking for their wares. In his wrecked work shop, Fashion Designer Emilio Pucci, who said his loss may reach $1,000,000, shrugged, "I personally will begin again"; but he noted sadly that many of Florence's artisans could never recover without outside aid. Meanwhile, Italian helicopters flew"800 missions a day to supply badly needed water and food. In Florence and its outskirts, Italian troops destroyed the carcasses of some...
...spotlight and exploding flashbulbs, she glided down the aisle of a packed Pudding auditorium. A pianist stumbled through "Days of Wine and Roses." The crowd hooted." "This is crazy...marvelous...unabelievable..."she mumbled. Her father, Class of '31, was at the foot of the stage, and she fell into Lis arms crying "Have you ever...
...legislative committee is now studying what this would mean to Quebec. Then there are the extremists, who call themselves the Quebec Liberation Army, and have been planting bombs in mailboxes, dynamiting army installations and looting armories. In the matter of flags, Quebec flies its own French fleur-de-lis over provincial government buildings in preference to the Red Ensign or the Union Jack...