Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From one of its steadiest suppliers, a British frozen-food company received a chilly ultimatum: either boost its price for peas (currently $126 a ton) or move all that pea-picking machinery off the Norfolk property. The hard-bargaining farm owner: Queen Elizabeth...
...month each summer he teaches classical guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. He also gives more concerts than ever (120 scheduled this year). Segovia generally avoids flashier-sounding pieces. "If people have even a little understanding," he says, "it is better to move them than to amaze them...
...cards to questions of strategy. Yet the carnival atmosphere was no substitute for success. The Browns did not win, and Veeck tried to get the franchise transferred to Minneapolis or Baltimore, even considered Los Angeles. When American League club owners, nettled by his brashness, blocked every move, all he could do was quit. Says he: "I didn't leave baseball gracefully. I was evicted...
...downright embarrassing heard out loud on TV. Examples : the stilted, literally translated phraseology that Hemingway used to suggest Spanish ("What passes with you?" "How are you called?") and the mountainside love scene ("Oh, I die each time. Do you not die?" "No. Almost. But did you feel the earth move...
...John Frankenheimer pushed the entire cast to the edges of endurance, while CBS shuddered and costs rose to nearly $500,000. For four weeks of rehearsals and ten days of taping, Frankenheimer sandwiched his work in between his cast's commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune: "I'm getting murdered in the morning/ Ding dong the Bell is going to chime...