Word: par
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera's new season started last Monday with more than the usual amount of confusion. Rudolph Bing, the Met's General Manager and trouble shooter par excellence had his hands full as six productions were put into their final form for presentation this week...
...Does not the American nation, a nation of action par excellence, need contemplation...
...invaded the Allen kitchen. While a cook stood by, Ike donned an apron, broiled steaks for the boys. Though happily at home at the range, Ike gladly left dishes behind while he directed his main energies toward the El Dorado Country Club course four miles away, a tough par 72 that the President, far off his game, did not come close...
Hersey's least satisfying piece of fiction. Rigged to the intellectual fashions of the day and noticeably unballasted with solid thought, the Herseyan exposé of war as psychoneurosis is about on a par with the fond illusion of the '30s that wars were made by munitions merchants. Whenever his story of a U.S. Flying Fortress crew in World War II does get fleetingly aloft, it is thanks to John Hersey's reportorial reflexes, which are as crisply functional as propeller blades...
...into some 5% of S.-P.'s common. S.P. stock has already risen so high (from a '58 low of $2.87½ to $12.50 last week) that a group of banks that last year forgave $38.2 million in corporate debt in return for convertible preferred with a par value of $16.5 million have begun to sell the shares at a profit...