Word: pelle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaching the country, the President went pell-mell over the fields, following neither road nor path, always on, on, straight ahead! I was much winded, but I would not give in, nor ask him to slow up, because I had the honor of la belle France in my heart. At last we came to the bank of a stream, rather wide and too deep to be forded. I sighed relief, because I thought that now we had reached our goal and would rest a moment and catch our breath before turning homeward...
...ethic of the American people," Wisconsin's liberal Democratic Senator William Proxmire replied that the President's proposals violated that "good old" ethic "in such a shocking and drastic way that it is very, very hard for us to accept." Said Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell: "Even as a liberal Democrat, I have doubts about the continuation of a deficit. I think we would like to see a balanced budget. This worry, I think, is throughout the country as well...
...rushing pell-mell to U.S. campuses, African students often find a bitter reality of poverty, loneliness and academic failure. One cure for this mess, which wins the U.S. no friends in Africa, is a common-sense group called the African Scholarship Program of American Universities. Developed three years ago by David D. Henry, former admissions dean of Harvard, A.S.P.A.U. now links 24 African countries with 213 U.S. campuses. By working with the African branch offices of the African-American Institute, it seeks to solve the key problem: selecting the right students for the right campuses before they...
...Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by deft use of the sustaining pedal he transformed the piano from a percussive to a harmonic instrument. Debussy's only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, surprised its audience at its 1902 premiere with its lack of crowd-catching arias or easily hummable melodies. But later audiences began to understand that Debussy was attempting something new in opera; by reducing the vocal parts to declamation-close to spoken language...
Sophomore guard George Humann, who played brilliantly all night for the Eagles, scored on a fast break after a jump shot by Leo Scully had failed. Then B.C. repeatedly moved over, under, around, and through the pell-mell Crimson defense, scoring six times in the next three minutes, all on shots from less than five feet...