Word: season
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's varsity wrestling squad was a powerhouse on pre-season paper, it was a tremendous disappointment in actual competition. Through a nerve-wracking series of misfortunes and near-misses, Coach Robert A. Pickett's men wound up with a 5-6 season mark, and a miserable 1-5, good for last place, in the Ivy League...
...power. The aria, Oh! de' verd'anni miei, got hearty applause. After the curtain fell on the third act of Verdi's Ernani, barrel-chested Baritone Cornell MacNeil scurried back to his dressing room, where he signed his name to a La Scala option for next season. Then he dispatched a cable to his wife in Cliffside Park, NJ.: "We tore up the pea patch, doll...
...usual 50% to 55% load factors at this time of year. Moreover, because the jets have stimulated all travel. Pan Am's total transatlantic business has jumped 46% in the last two months, with even bigger increases on the way. Advance bookings for the summer travel season are up 236% in economy class, up 340% in deluxe class...
This first novel by a woman in her forties is an astonishing work, one of the few rewarding books of a so-so season. The spinster of the title is Anna Vorontosov, a schoolteacher in back-country New Zealand. She is a small woman of uncertain age, whose passions are still young because she has never used them. Gifted but a little balmy, Anna primes herself for school each morning with half a tumbler of brandy, frequently gets the weeps, talks persuasively to trees and flowers, has stupendous headaches in Technicolor. Wildly alive, Anna flinches only at the thought...
...story of a child who witnesses a crime and cannot make the adult world understand has been written before, but rarely so well. Devil by the Sea is the season's most chilling tale, and British Novelist Bawden tells it with the devil's own gift of gab and style. She can charm as well as chill. The innocent childhood scenes she sets down, in contrast to the mounting horror in the background, are as engaging as any of the beach idyls sketched by Lewis Carroll...