Word: scalese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ruth's father was a frustrated violinist (reduced to giving lessons), but when she rebelled against this instrument at the age of three, pleading for the piano, he gave her what she wanted. The very next morning he woke her at six, trotted her without breakfast to the piano...
St. Michael Weighing the Souls (opposite), a side panel on an altar of a small church in the Ribes Valley, was painted (by an unknown artist) with all the suspense of a morality play acted out upon a stage. The good saint is seen in the act of weighing souls...
Fish-Scale Paint. A hot-rod buff himself. Bachelor Petersen aims his magazines at a dedicated army of backyard putterers, fellow hot-rodders and sports-car zealots from Hawaii to Great Britain. This 99.9% male audience relies on Petersen's magazines each month for soup-it-yourself advice, advance...
The Administration made a grave error in rejecting the reorganization of military pay scales suggested by the Cordiner Committee.
Such criticism of Kissinger specifics are valid, but so is Kissinger's broader point that all these assets are likely to be wasted unless the U.S. is militarily, and above all psychologically, ready to use them-if deterrence fails. It takes a firm hand and steady nerves to face...