Word: sheepishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheepish Thunder. Boston liked Kaddish better than Tel Aviv did when Bernstein took it there for its December premiere. Few Israelis could accept what they called "this American Kaddish"; when the cantor chants the Kaddish in the synagogue, it is with a cry, not with the hand-clapping Lenny prescribed for the choruses. Said one Israeli critic: "It's philosophy, it's drama, it may even be music, but it certainly is not Kaddish...
...Sheepish Smile. Even as Ben Bella spoke, his army moved. A convoy of seven Soviet-made 85-mm. cannon, a batch of 37-mm. antiaircraft guns and two fresh battalions rolled along twisting roads into the mountain town of Tizi-Ouzou, on the edge of rebel-held territory. Encamped along the high ridges were the guerrillas. They were equipped with heavy machine guns and recoil less cannon, which they cleaned constantly when they were not listening to their transistor radios or posing for Western news photographers.* Indian-style signal fires on the mountain spread news of the government troops...
...troopers and the Governor himself. Closeted in the statehouse in Montgomery, Wallace ordered his National Guardsmen to rout out the marshals, who were deployed on the capitol grounds waiting for him to come out. Then followed a comic-opera scene, with helmeted and bayonet-carrying guardsmen flushing sheepish marshals out of the bushes and sending them on their...
...William Beaumont General Hospital in El Paso were young Army or Air Force men; all had been shot in the leg. But not in defense of their country. Most had delayed for many painful hours-one as long as eight days-before seeking help, and they were extraordinarily sheepish about telling how they had been wounded. After Captain Michael M. Duffy of the Army's Medical Corps wormed the story out of the first such patient, he learned to spot similar cases quickly. They were victims of the fast-draw craze that has swept the country, and especially...
Where No One Expected. Feeling somewhat sheepish, considering the fact that it is supposed to watch everything that moves in the Caribbean, the U.S. quickly announced that the chances of the Anzoátegui reaching Castro's snug harbor "are remote." But where was the freighter? The Navy said that it had checked 400 ships without finding a trace...