Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franco's move seemed feeble in the face of the people's growing defiance. Spanish towns were flooded with clandestine handbills urging organized protests against the high cost of living. A 24-hour strike was called in Madrid for May 22. Spain seemed to have shed some of the fear that had kept it silent for twelve years...
Gordon M. Fair, Dunster Housemaster, stood solidly behind his superintendent, and declined to shed further light on the mystery. He really didn't know anything about it, he said...
...flatter anyone," says British-born Portrait Painter Gerald Brockhurst, 59. "I just paint them in the best possible light." In Manhattan last week a show of 24 of his oils and portrait drawings shed Brockhurst's best light on 24 Americans, mostly socialites and businessmen...
Unfortunately, the deputy fireman had been drafted into the army. Up went notices saying that from March 5 to March 17 the railroad would close down; customers would have to travel by specially hired buses. For three days the Flyer stayed sadly in its shed. One bus broke down and a car was hired. Then the railroad's top officials heard about the rustic crisis, quickly fetched old Flyerman George Nicholson from another line. Said George warmly: "I jumped at the chance. For seven years I fired this train. I'm fond...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...