Word: samsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becoming Labor's shadow Foreign Secretary, has left behind his old left-wing Bevanite crowd. As Bevan sat with face flaming, hands clenched, Macmillan pressed home the final scathing remark: "I feel sorry for him as he gropes about, abandoned by his old friends and colleagues-a shorn Samson surrounded by a bevy of prim and aging Delilahs." Labor's censure motion was defeated by a surprisingly large 70-vote margin...
...romantic solution that makes everyone happy-so happy that Elephant Hill's Dickensian climax reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted son the truth about his parentage-and the eight-year-old, instead of fracturing his psyche, exclaims with...
...Monaco came to the Met in 1952 after serving in the Italian army and making his big-time debut at Covent Garden. Short, stocky and a shouter, Del Monaco commands ringing B-flats that have made a name for him in all the roles-Pagliacci's Canio, Samson, Aïda's Radames-in which vocal volume, height and brilliance are needed simultaneously. His interpretation of Otello, by critical consensus, is the finest in present-day opera...
Back home in Kingsburg (pop. 23,000), Rafe's parents smiled happily when the local radio station interrupted a music program to announce his victory. But none of the town's inhabitants were very surprised. To the home-town folks, Johnson is a Samson, Paul Bunyan and Frank Merriwell rolled into one. His smoothly muscled build (6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs.) casts him in the mold of Jim Thorpe and Bob Mathias, great Olympic decathlon champions of the past. In high school he captained the track, basketball and football teams, is still remembered as a good infielder...
...Ceylonese speaker, Samson Wijesinha, a lawyer, gave credit to Britain which "with one stroke of the pen turned discontented subjects into equals and friends" when it granted independence to Ceylon...