Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the years, the University has been "improving" its bell system little by little. In the early 1800's student pranks forced the Corporation to remove from public access the chain which rang the bell. Even then, authorities were careful lest more diligent pranksters find a way to disrupt nocturnal slumbers and daily routine...
Gunfire in the Square. A round-faced shock-haired man rose 40 ft. away, pointed a pistol at Nasser and began firing carefully and evenly. Eight shots rang out, and resounded all over Egypt by radio. A glass lamp shattered overhead and showered shards of glass; the left breast of Nasser's uniform grew dark with a stain that looked like blood, but still Nasser stood, thrusting aside friendly hands that tried to pull him down out of danger. Then he stepped back to the microphone and in a hoarse voice, wild and throbbing, screamed again and again...
...first G.M. president to make such a grand tour of foreign plants, Curtice rang up good press notices everywhere. Said Britain's Motor Trader in clipped accents: "America could export more of this type of American." Said Berlingske Tidende, Denmark's leading daily, after a Curtice press conference: "It was really felt that here was a magnate who had succeeded in performing the miracle to preserve his soul in company with an annual turnover of 70 thousand million kroner...
...wanted Copland, I would have asked him to write it"). The second was too complicated. But the third, consisting of simple tunes with skeletal, guitarlike accompaniments, rang the bell. Composer Kay scoured source books for western tunes, came up with twelve of them, from Old Taylor, Rye Whisky and Lolly-Too-Dum to Red River Valley (which he used as a unifying theme). Balanchine took the piano sketch to his rehearsal hall and roughed in dance movements with his company. When Balanchine & Co. got back from a successful West Coast tour last month, the score was ready. Last week...
Saunders Redding, 48, is a good-looking Negro professor of English at Hampton Institute (Va.), one of the nation's best Negro colleges. One spring day in 1952, the phone rang in his office and a voice said: "This is the State Department. Would you be available for a temporary foreign assignment?" Professor Redding was available; the assignment was India. That summer he traveled 25,000 miles through India, lecturing on America to tens of thousands of curious and often hostile students and professors...