Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas fan that Callas' tractability might have something to do with the fact that she has about run out of major operatic stages on which to sing. Said he, in an answer worthy of La Divina herself: "We can build 'em faster...
...public roads through the 24-hour grind. They roam through 500-odd fair stands, quaff more than 100,000 liters of wine, beer and soft drinks, watch professional wrestling matches just 50 yards from the track, ogle strippers and snake dancers, cram all-night dance halls and, when they run down, catch a few winks in 20,000 sleeping tents booked to capacity at $5 a tent...
Solid Ahead. Behind Britain's trade comeback is a brisk overhaul of its economy. After the September 1957 run on the pound in favor of the German mark, which Britons considered one of the darkest periods since the war, the government decided that more austerity was needed to restore the pound's prestige. It cut down government spending, raised the bank rate to 7%, got banks to put a voluntary "freeze" on bank loans. Britain was also helped by the worldwide drop in prices of raw materials. Its austerity program worked, and by mid-1958 Britain again...
Most of the rest of his life ran downhill. His accounts were snarled, and the British refused to honor bills he had run up for provisions. Soldiers rescued him from debtors' prison in New York, but in London, on one of the trips he made to raise money, he was jailed for 22 months. His most ambitious moneymaking venture, which gave Novelist Kenneth Roberts the title for his book about Rogers, was to find a northwest passage to the Pacific. But debt, circumstance and such enemies as Gage kept him from searching for the ' overland route that...
...Arts Festival, which ended its three-week run yesterday, proved qualitatively to be the best yet in the outdoor Festival's eight-year history. Consisting of many exhibits and a wide variety of stage events, the Festival was scheduled to close June 21. But a freakishly persistent cold and drizzle kept many thousands of people away. So Mayor Hynes and the Park Commissioner consented to allow the exhibits to inhabit the Public Gardens an extra week...