Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season steak before broiling (rub on hot mustard, top with hickory salt), found aquariums for some boys who had brought a batch of snakes back from camp. He has had some failures, too. He had no solution for the woman who wrote: "Sheriff coming to foreclose tomorrow. Please send $4,000 in cash," and he was unable to finance a trip to the Canadian wilds for a would-be Davy Crockett who wanted to kill himself...
...tiger, De Sapio was plagued by his Italo-Americanism. When Racketeer Frank Costello (born Castiglia) casually told the Kefauver committee that he knew De Sapio "very well," the public assumed the worst. After all, weren't both men Italians? "What do I have to do?" asks De Sapio. "Send a special scout ahead all day everywhere I go to case a joint before I step inside? About a week ago, I was having lunch with some friends at one of the best restaurants in town.† We're all having a pleasant time, when suddenly someone comes...
...succession to the throne (she is third, after Prince Charles and Princess Anne). Parliament could have no further grounds for objecting to the marriage, since she would then be acting as a private person. They have recommended that if Margaret plans to go through with it, the Queen should send a message to Parliament-after Parliament meets again in October-apprising Lords and Commons of her sister's intention of retiring to private life...
...Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries free himself and send the alarm...
...picturesque. To their predecessors, the picturesque meant towering cliffs, rushing streams, deep woods, mists and rising storms. Contemporary landscape painters look for a different, milder set of cliches: red barns, spreading elms, old wharves and the like. Professional modernists, for their part, do not set foot out of doors, send their models packing, pull the shades down tight, turn on the light, and paint abstract patterns uninspired by anything...