Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understands better than any other Latin American country that the Korean war is also its war. To date, Colombia has been the one Latin American government to promise acceptable fighting help for the U.N. forces. The 1,430-ton frigate Almirante Padilla, best ship in the Colombian navy, will sail from San Diego, Calif. next week; a specially organized battalion (1,080 men) is in training for Korea...
William S. Smith, lecturer in Fine Arts, has been appointed director of the now American Research center in Egypt for 1951. Smith, who also holds a Fulbright Fellowship, will sail for Cairo a week from tomorrow. He will study materials from the recent Giza excavations and survey paintings and reliefs in Middle Kingdom rock-out tombs...
Where'er upon life's sea we sail...
London. His second successful opera, it was based on the legend of a Dutch captain condemned by the Devil to sail the seas until judgment day, unless, in brief excursions ashore every seven years, he could find a woman who would be faithful until death. The ghostly Dutchman finds his woman in the second act, but without giving operatic stage directors much lively theater business...
...shakes a metaphor like a wet dog shaking himself dry. A man is broken "on the wheel of a dream"; the night wind passes "like a sail across/ A blind man's eye"; an old house "looks as though the walls had cried themselves/ To sleep"; a happy character "sits and purrs/ As though the morning were a saucer of milk"; the fields of grain move "like a lion's mane"; flowers gather "like pilgrims in the aisles of the sun"; the morning leaves "the sunlight on my step like any normal/ Tradesman." Fry's most persistent...