Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They are Paul Bender 3L, Robert T. Brown 2G, Alfred David 4G, Richard P. Dober 2GSD, John J. Keaney 4G, Robert H. Mundheim 3L, Glenn R. Murray, Jr. 3L, Roger B. Stein 3G, and Richard T. Vann...
Mollet's maneuver was timed to coincide with the National Assembly debate on the government's demand for 150 billion francs ($428 million) in new taxes. Last week, as the Assembly Finance Committee tore up Finance Minister Paul Ra-madier's tax plan (indirect levies which would fall heavily on upper-income brackets), there was a significant rise in the price of the gold Napoleon, a coin that Frenchmen traditionally buy when they become nervous about their country's currency. Suggestions that the franc be devalued* were described by Mollet as "crime and imbecility...
...Even Don is surprised. When the Redlegs got him from Chicago last fall, he was ready to quit baseball if he did not have a good year. "I'm not going back to the minors," he told General Manager Gabe Paul. "I don't want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson...
...monumental figures as Mother and Child, which only superb talent saves from becoming ludicrous. In his Three Dancers he not only bade farewell to his period of stage designing with the Ballet Russe (where he met and married his one legal wife, Olga Koklova, mother of his eldest son Paul), but initiated a series of agonizing, lopsided, contorted figures whose displaced limbs and wandering eyes still boggle the public...
...power with which Cocteau captures the reader's attention and directs it at these flamboyant eccentricities is the real measure of the book's success. It is a considerable power. The reader is drawn almost irresistably into the escapist "game" of Paul and Elisabeth, as fascinated by this inversion as are the characters themselves...