Word: pressinger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One day around 1800, an already notorious teen-age violinist arrived in Leghorn to play a concert-with no violin. His name was Nicolo Paganini, and he had pawned his fiddle to pay off a pressing gambling debt. A wealthy merchant offered to lend him a matchless Guarneri del Gesu...
Stevenson asked for a postponement because of a pressing speaking schedule. The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate recently returned from a trip around the world.
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The 400 items (chosen from a record 6,000 entries) ranged from preserve jars to crystal goblets, from plastic leaf rakes to automatic dishwashers. Most of them had bold, simple shapes; there were corkscrews and clothes hangers that might be mistaken for modern abstract sculpture. Cheap-looking plastic was disguised...
Since last July, Admiral Arthur W. Radford and the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been making a new assessment of the U.S. armed forces. Last week, their deliberations almost over, they found one problem more pressing than others. The problem: manpower.