Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that U.S. calypso with its own topical allusions (e.g., "Don't blame Elvis for wiggling his pelvis," and "Happy Ireland has this to say: De Valera is here to stay") is corrupting a fine old tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
...troubled U.S. air-craft-engine industry. In a few short years, the five well-matched big companies that had competed for the jet market have been narrowed to Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Aircraft Co. Said a top Defense Department official: "It's a short, sad story. Pratt & Whitney has the best engines, and that is what we have got to have...
Every Day a Festival. When Gabriele Munter first met Kandinsky in Munich at the beginning of the century, she was a sad-faced girl with brown hair and big eyes, who longed to paint. Kandinsky, who at 30 with his young wife had fled a dull job as an economics professor in Russia, was already the leader of a group of independent artists, and taught painting at their school. Gabriele became his favorite student. He kept her after class, took her on painting jaunts. The following year they left on a five-year tour of Europe and North, Africa...
...year-old, when the ranch held its tienta (test) for the young bulls, Gitano astounded the company with his fighting qualities: he knocked the picador's horse sprawling and gored one of the capemen. The boy was proud, but he was sad too. In two years Gitano would be sent to the corrida to be artistically butchered for the pleasure of the public...
...sad part of the ski team's plight is that a great deal of the much- heralded sophomore has gone to waste for lack of adequate coaching. Take the case of Don Stephenson. Stephenson, a Holderness graduate, is rated among the best in the East. At Holderness, he consistently beat team-mate Dick Taylor. This year, Taylor finished second for Dartmouth in cross country in the Middlebury Carnival; Stephenson came in 12th...