Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others complained of the sacrilege by mail. Miss Pilgrim, an attempt to tinker with the Grable formula, is that rare Grable picture that lost money...
...Baillie, professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has written only two books in his 60 years. But when he has something to say, he knows how to say it. Swiss Professor Emil Brunner, one of Europe's leading theologians, paid it a rare tribute: "It is rather exceptional that a book of dogmatic theology makes fascinating reading . . ." Union Theological Seminary's President Emeritus Henry Sloane Coffin gave it an equally rare garland: "First-rate . . . We have little really tiptop theology today, and this is tiptop...
...dangerous operation might give the child a chance at normal life, but it might also kill her. Yet without the operation, she faced almost certain death within the next few years. Pamela Frances Lamphere, now 22 months old, had been born with her bladder outside her body. This rare malformation, called exstrophy, usually causes death (of urinary tract infection) before a child is five...
When the neighbors got too curious about el gringo's big library, his Mexican wife apologized: "He's a rare one. He doesn't like to make friends. He mostly just works in the restaurant or at his desk...
...trouble. Last July, the Met's directors announced that the condition of the U.S.'s No. 1 cultural pride & glory was "critical." But few took the announcement seriously: hadn't the Met cried wolf before? Besides, the 65-year-old Met had just had three rare, glorious years (1944, 1945 and 1946) in the black...