Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facing newsmen at an open-air press conference in Key West, suntanned Harry Truman seemed as cool and casual as his floppy blue slack suit. For the time being, at least, the President just wanted to forgive and forget...
...sent his secretary to "Irish Night" at the Peter J. Dooling (Tammany) Association to announce that the mayor also recognized the claim of Assemblyman Owen McGivern to the nomination. Tammany Boss Rogers hoped that Republican Governor Tom Dewey would mercifully spare him a special election, leave the seat open until November and give him time to work something...
Life in Akir has few refinements. Moshe Ben Yaacov Libby, a lean, swarthy immigrant from Yemen, lives with his family of five in a rusty, corrugated-iron shelter. They cook Arab style over an open clay oven and eat from a rough board supported by orange crates. Moshe's wife has found only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house...
...York Philharmonic through Mennin's Fourth last week, listeners and critics were glad the composer had gone ahead. At times, the Fourth sounded as if it were about to sound like someone else; there were Stravinsky-like dissonances, used sparingly and for punctuation, in the opening of the rhythmic first movement, and there were Hindemith or Shostakovich traces in the lyric andante. But each time, and overall, the music came out strongly Mennin-energetically powerful, open and clean...
...Dallas, a community library, and a dairy barn for his school. He wants bee colonies, rabbit hutches, fruit trees and an amateur weather station-not forgetting a telescope to study astronomy ("That will get them a long way out of West Dallas"). He also wants to keep his school open all through the summer. "That way," says he, "a lot of these youngsters whose folks take them off cotton picking in the fall can get their full nine months...