Word: petiteness
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...Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate to balancing martini glasses. Meanwhile remember that more than one promising career has been nipped in the bud by a petit four injudiciously dropped on the wrong dress...
...comment on this year's varsity would be complete without dwelling for a sentimental while on George Harrington, the petit 5 ft., 7 in. guard whose scoring, playmaking, and seemingly charismatic presence carried the Crimson through the season's darker moments...
Left to perform without the chorus, the dancers alternated "show" and serious numbers. Amy Greenfield's "Jungle Drums" dance was easily the most spectacular feat of the evening. requiring amazing subtleties of rhythm and control. And "Le Petit Mal De La Jeunesse," a portrait of teenagers today, danced by Penny Carver, Elizabeth Theiler, and Tom Glick, took the entertainment honors. The trio slid, slunk, crumpled and twitched to the beat of a jazz ensemble and Mark Mirsky's narrative...
Biggest Yet. In Athens, where he lives in a suite in the Petit Palais hotel, Makarios issued a statement denouncing both the British and the Turks and demanding U.N. intervention, but later said he would like to return to Cyprus because he had some, "but not very great," hopes that he could help toward a settlement. Crucial date was Oct. 1, by which time Turkey is scheduled to appoint its official adviser to Cyprus' Governor. Said Makarios: "If the Turkish representative goes to Nicosia and Sir Hugh enforces the British plan, it will be the beginning of the biggest...
Whether in conscious or unconscious irony, Makarios had chosen to put up at Athens' fanciest hotel, now because of anti-British sentiment officially called the "Petit Palais," but still known to all Athenians by its original name-"Grande Bretagne." By the time he got there, some 50,000 people had packed themselves into the square before the hotel. Speaking to the crowd from the hotel balcony, Makarios promptly made it clear that his months of exile in the Seychelles Islands had made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less...