Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county's Democratic Central Committee met there to steer its course for 1948. Perhaps no political organization has fewer inhibitions or more inner tensions than the Central Committee. Its 225 members are a rare assortment of Upton Sinclairites, Socialists, Communists, PCAsters, Hollywood leftists, Roosevelt New Dealers and Ed Pauley conservatives. Their meeting was not serene...
Sanky Flynn, 30-year-old textile millworker of Greensboro, N.C., has a rare tinnitis that is "objective": in a quiet room, other people can hear his right ear ticking three feet away;* his left ear also ticks, but not so loudly. Flynn's ears tick every 15 seconds...
...through Harvard's music school, too. Now the head of Harvard's music department, he insists that his students know the rules before they break them. He has the reputation of being averse to melody, and is a little sensitive about it. Once someone praised a rare tuneful passage in one of his string quartets. Said Piston, who doesn't consider himself exactly tuneless: "That's what I call, 'Don't throw me out in the snow, Father...
...escape from ordinary, everyday life. But he was too little of an esthete to flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
...someone comes to us for a book on collecting tulips," said Morrill, "we want to have it for him." Among the rare books the store hopes to sell will be a first issue of a first edition of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and countless Americana...