Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxer, a good-natured brute of a dog, was bred in central Europe in the 15th Century to whip its weight in wild boars. In the U.S., until recently, boxers were as rare as giraffes. Even 16 years ago, says one breeder, "you could lead all the boxers in the country into Times Square, say 'scat,' and they'd have been out of sight in the flick of your finger." Now, still good-natured but also smartly fashionable, some 75,000 boxers (costing up to $5,000 per pup) are on leash in the 48 states...
...statuettes he collects, Gulbenkian neither confirms nor denies the stories that describe him variously as a descendant of Armenian kings, an ex-Turkish rug peddler, a lace merchant. He will say little more about his tastes in art, except that he has been collecting old masters, sculpture, rare books, Greek coins and Persian rugs since early in the century...
Even a group of musicians skilled and trained as the members of the Boston Symphony cannot play consistently well. Really thrilling performances occur at those rare instances when a carefully trained orchestra, inspired by the conductor and the music, plays "above its head" in performance...
...girl who has just passed her twenty-first birthday should know a trombone when she sees one, but the question had its points. Playing the trombone was Jimmy Archey, whose name is not on the marquee, but who seems the outstanding member of a rare band. The Wilber group has a very special talent for integration and quiet harmony which makes it a welcome change from the noisy cacophony which seems popular now. Wilber, Archey, and the aged Pops Foster take turns backing restrained solo breaks, with only the final choruses of such venerable numbers as "Rose Room," "Muskrat Ramble...
...today signature cards will required to eliminate proxy registration, which previously was illegal but not at all rare...