Word: scrapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wagner first exercised his new political muscle last week in the scrap over a replacement for Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack. De Sapio seemed to have that election in his pocket. But when Wagner began to remind reluctant councilmen of the patronage at his command, he had surprisingly little trouble. Wagner's choice, Judge Edward Richard Dudley, onetime Ambassador to Liberia (the U.S.'s first Negro ambassador), won the showdown vote in the council...
...Flotow (1812-83) wrote about a score of operas for the theaters of Paris, but only Martha remained in the repertory. As late as the 1920s it was a smash at the Met, with Caruso periodically igniting the house with the tenor aria "M'appari." The only other scrap of the opera likely to be familiar to modern audiences is The Last Rose of Summer, which Flotow lifted from a book of Irish folk songs, where it was known as The Groves of Blarney. When Berlioz heard Soprano Adelina Patti sing the air, he remarked wryly that "its fragrance...
Softspoken, middle-sized, myopic Marshall Field Jr., 44, has the mild, diffident mien of a church usher. Ho neither looks nor acts like a fighter, but the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Daily News is enthusiastically engaged in a scrap. What is more, he picked it. With his two papers, Field is hurling a daily challenge at the late Robert Rutherford McCormick's big and powerful morning Tribune...
...elect Kennedy owes his national victory November 8 largely to the electoral votes of the major industrial states, and these states in turn went Democratic by virtue of sizable Kennedy majorities in the big cities like New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit. Thus, while Kennedy can without undue cynicism scrap the farm program the Midwest rejected, he cannot in good conscience go back on his promises of housing and urban renewal for the cities. His debt to them is too great...
...formant. "He will try to maintain good relations with all countries that want to do business with us." Others reported that Quadros was anxious to trade with Red China, that he wanted to meet with Nas ser and Nehru, that he was not (as some feared) going to scrap Brasilia as the capital, that he was studying the administration of Europe, that he was studying Brazilian problems, that he would return in mid-January, that he would not return until late January, that he sent a warm ''abraqo to all Brazilian workers." Country Without a Man? Brazilians were...