Word: organize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production is finished with all sorts of fine trimmings, not the least of which are Robert Fletcher's costumes and Robert O'Hearn's settings. Light organ and piano music, strictly a Brattle accouterment, provide a tasteful background...
...dusty desert to the east of the Organ Mountains is sown with nonhuman eyes: radars, telescopic cameras, instruments to measure the missile's enormous speed. Housed in small concrete buildings or perched on platforms, they cover the whole range, which is roughly 40 miles wide and 100 miles long. Roosting on high mountains are astronomical telescopes with 16-inch mirrors that can photograph the missile like a planet in space...
...Fremstad, eightyish, old-time Wagnerian soprano, one of the last of the hefty, histrionic divas of the Metropolitan Opera's early-century "Golden Age"; in Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. In Minnesota, where her father emigrated from Norway and set up as a Methodist lay preacher, she played the organ at his revival meetings, worked her way to Manhattan stardom, made a million, at her farewell appearance in 1914 (as Elsa in Lohengrin) took 40 curtain calls...
...Communist world, jubilee was mostly high and unrestrained. "Victory for the Chinese and Korean people in the fight to resist American aggression," crowed Radio Peking. Rome's Red organ I'Unità echoed: "The criminal MacArthur fired because of the protest of the whole civilized world." The satellite Budapest press chanted a litany of satisfaction over the dismissal of a "bloody-handed hangman, murderous, carnivorous fascist." Only Moscow struck the suspicious as well as triumphant note. "Having removed the general who failed," warned the Literary Gazette for the ears of the Communist faithful, "Wall Street does not intend...
...spent several years, and undertaken a great deal of medical research in reaching its decision. Even now, his liver is a somewhat mysterious organ, e.g., nobody knows exactly why a man dies within 24 hours after the liver is removed. Far less was known in 1868, when Dr. Samuel Carter of Erie, Pa. compounded a formula which he thought was good for sick headache and torpid liver (both "positively cured"), also indigestion, constipation or what-ails...