Word: shading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Jaakko Mikkola will juggle some of his middle distance men. The interesting switch will place crack two-miler Dave Gregory in the mile. Gregory ran the mile once before this season against Northeastern in the first meet of the year. In this race, he was only a shade over 4:31, despite the loss of a shoe on the first...
...this, the shade of her eyes, sir?" she asked the broad, blue-suited gentleman. "Not sure," he replied. "Had a light tan mink in mind, to go with her hair." "Well then," the saleslady replied in a coy tone of voice, "why not buy her both? Everyone gives mink coats for Christmas, but not many men give two." The man thought this over...
...most publishers did better than in 1950. Most of them also stopped fretting about television, and began to live with it. During the year, they published more than 11,000 titles, about 2,500 of them reprints, an average of more than 30 a day. The output was a shade below the alltime record of 1940 (11,328)-and far less than the 17,500 which the British brought out this year under their lower costs-but it reflected, nonetheless, the most active U.S. publishing year in a decade...
...himself Joseph Cyr. He was charged with fraudulent entry into the navy because that was not his name: he had borrowed it, along with copies of medical credentials, from a real Joseph C. Cyr who practices in Grand Falls, N.B. The court's sentence: "Discharge with disgrace" (a shade less disgraceful than a "discharge with dishonor...
...Shakespearean Webster hoped "that the shade of Verdi may be heard to murmur 'I have not been betrayed.' " A first-rate cast was listed to do its part: Veteran Soprano Zinka Milanov as Aiïa, Elena Nikolaidi as Amneris, new Italian Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames and George London as Amonasro. Some first-nighters might even hear Verdi's shade murmur,"In better shape than...