Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teaching and the advocating? The Government had put the finger on a number of small fry as the actual instructors. On the basis of the evidence so far, only a few of the eleven big fish on trial had actually labored in this vineyard. What the Government was trying to prove, however, was that all of the eleven, who comprised the U.S. Politburo, set the line, gave the orders, and made very sure that a far from innocent thing was being carried...
...news of his assignment got around, he and his wife got a stream of anonymous telephone calls threatening them with dire trouble if he didn't lay off. Johnson changed his phone to an unlisted number and went on prying information out of dockwallopers, union bosses, thugs, shipowners and police files...
Princess & Punch. With the muscular but metronomic beat that Bostonians have come to know well in 20 years, Conductor Fiedler launched into a lively program that began with the Princess Elizabeth march, by Britain's Eric Coates. At the end of each number, instead of going offstage, he took a seat in front of his cellos and beamed while waitresses collected orders at the crowded tables-for beer, wine and the purplish lemonade known as "Pop Punch." When the applause was insistent, he signaled for an encore from more than 400 numbers that he keeps on tap. On opening...
...relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle periods." Ogilvie adds: "Science is advanced further in a shorter time by the informal chatter of a few like-minded friends over cocktails than by the formal exchange of a paper or by any number of congresses...
Princeton arrived on the Charles with a crew which used a style very similar to Bolles' an ideally matched crew superbly conditioned, and trained to stroke identically. Belles, on the other hand, had a varsity weeks behind the Tigers on practice, with a number five oar who takes absolutely no layback a bow and seven man who both dip their right shoulders before the catch, an da stroke who rows the lowest beat in the east. Yet the Bolles-coached crew won, has gone right on winning since that race, and probably will continue to do so until the season...