Word: repays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves range in age from 15 to 28, have been rehearsing for their tour for the last two summers. Conductor Sirpo, 60, is a harddriving; expatriate Finn who wants the old countries to understand the deep-down values he has found in the U.S. "I felt the need to repay America for giving me so much," he explains, "and for a music teacher, music is the only way to repay something. I wanted to show Europeans what young Americans can do in music, to let them see something of the culture and spiritual power our country can produce...
...genius. His name: Georges Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935), renowned as "the king of chefs and the chef of kings." He plied King George V with variations of one of the monarch's favorite dishes, cream cheese. He fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne. "How can I repay you?" the Kaiser asked. "Give us back Alsace-Lorraine," the Frenchman replied...
...summary discussion of the great amount of poetry in this issue would be as presumptuous as it would be useless. Lyon Phelps, Angus Fletcher, Ruth Whitman, and Hugh Amory have made contributions which will in some cases richly repay close reading. I cannot omit mentioning, however, the thrill of discovery which I have experienced in the course of my readings of Mr. Amory's Lieder and his Prothalamium. I find them the most exquisite and successful achievements in the magazine. That the Lieder have probed so centrally into a relationship, that the Prothalamium attains a ritual by means of manifold...
...investment to Sears's 13%, J. C. Penney's if he couldn't do better, said Wolfson he "would tender my resignation and walk out." He reported spending $350,000 so far on the proxy fight, added he expected the stockholders would be "glad" to repay...
...Mediterranean. Arab leaders all over the Middle East talk with increasing passion of a coming "second round" and the final defeat of Israel, the "cancer in the body of the Arab world," as Egypt's General Naguib phrased it. At present Israeli military strength is probably sufficient to repay any Arab attack with interest. The balance of military power in the Middle East may be shifting slowly toward the Arabs, however. In addition to their obvious advantages in manpower and resources, the Arab states are steadily modernizing their military forces and war industries. Already they are spending more for military...