Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When it rang down the curtain on its 4Oth season last week, the St. Louis municipal open-air opera could not only boast that it was "alone in its greatness" -it was also lonely in its solvency. St. Louis, its production costs breaking the $1,000,000 mark for the first time, spiced up its shows through the 12-week season with such stars as Bob Hope (in Roberta) and Andy Devine (in Show Boat), and, despite four rained-out performances, pulled a record 650,000 customers. It was a big enough gate to win the battle against night baseball...
...able to attract many of the prima donnas in American theology -the men of academic glamour." As a result, many denominational seminaries feel "that they ought to focus down on the education of ministers and pastors, and leave the training of scholars to others. This is the mood that rang all the alarm bells...
...team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped off in time's nick, Mark Clark and his men ducked desperately into the wine cellar. Murphy, an aide and a French officer remained upstairs, tipsily greeted the cops, clanked bottles, sang noisily, urged...
...when the phone rang in the Cannes hotel room of Jean Cerrone, company manager of Manhattan's touring American Ballet Theatre. The news: a twelve-ton truck carrying most of the company's gear had gone up in flames. Cerrone mumbled "Merci," went back to sleep, 15 minutes later woke up again in a horrified double take. By the time he got to the scene of the fire, all the company's wardrobe trunks had been destroyed, along with scenery and props for twelve ballets, plus orchestra scores for four. Total damage, mostly coveted by insurance: about...
...telephones rang incessantly; Cleveland television station WEWS had never had so many complaints in a single day. When the umpteenth belligerent caller demanded, "How long are you going to keep the U.N. session on the air?", General Manager James C. Hanrahan finally blew a fuse. "How long will the marines stay in Lebanon?" he shouted, and banged the receiver down in disgust...