Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his student days at the University of Havana, Senator Eduardo Chibás, 43, has been proclaiming and demonstrating his willingness to shed his blood for a cause or for his honor. He has fought numerous duels, including a saber engagement in 1947 with Carlos Prio Socarras, now President of Cuba. When someone fired a bullet at Chibás while he was making an open-air speech back in 1947, he bared his chest and cried, "Go ahead and shoot! The Ortodoxos need a martyr...
...Berkshire Music Center goes into its fourth week with the first Shed performance tonight by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Students from all departments will present a memorial concert for the late Serge Koussevitsky tomorrow night...
...built by a widow for her
daughter, was the home of a sergeant, his wife, mother-in-law and three
children. The house is 14 ft. wide, 9 ft. deep, has no water. Rent: $45
a month, later reduced by the rent-control office to $35.
...Chemical name: Allopregnane-3 beta, 17 alpha, 21-triol-n, 20-dione. *Which is growing steadily. Newest use: Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins reported last week in Seattle that girls who show marked outward signs of masculinity (pseudo-hermaphrodites) respond magically to small doses of the hormone. They shed facial hair, develop curves in right places, seem to become feminine in every...
...blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear, breathless arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite...