Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov had hurried to Paris with an 89-man staff (including five bodyguards), which had been assembled overnight with Stakhanovite speed. At first, it looked as though Molotov intended to play along with the American plan for a while, and later try to shift the onus of a possible failure on to the U.S. How that might happen was explained by one diplomat in Paris: "Ice cream would have a better chance of surviving in hell than a big credit plan which includes the Russians would have in the U.S. Congress...
Australia may have a shortage of productive workmen, but it has no shortage of bookies (who, in Australia, are highly respectable gentry). Aussies, who hate to miss a chance to get a lot for a little, play the horses heavily. In sports-mad Brisbane, the favorite race-track bet is a long-shot version of the U.S. daily double-a combined long-odds bet on two races. Some bookmakers, known as "doubles fielders" will not accept bets of any other kind...
Instead of vanes to deflect the jet, the Neptune will have the whole "thrust unit" (combustion chamber and discharge tube) mounted so that it can be moved slightly. Gyroscopic stabilizing instruments in the nose will play the jet from side to side like water from a hose, overcoming the rocket's tendency to wobble on the takeoff...
...told Movie-man Irving Thalberg, "When you buy me, you're buying Chopin, Liszt and Mozart. You're getting the very best." His most successful steal was Chasing Rainbows from Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. He got the title for Peg O' My Heart from the play (1912) starring Laurette Taylor, which had been a hit before Fisher borrowed its well-plugged name for his song. Fisher once sued Jerome Kern, accusing him of stealing the theme of his Kalula from the rumbling bass part of Dardanella. The jury awarded...
...boys plunked nibs out of a 10ft. ring. The game was strictly for keeps, and towheaded, ten-year-old Larry Vinson (known around school as "Big Lick") suffered the penalty of being too good. He complained: "I broke every kid in school . . . can't get anybody to play with me any more...