Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the sole exception of Guinea, not a single new African state has shown the slightest sign of wishing to be counted part of the Communist bloc...
...large, but firm cushion, and stretch out your legs in front of you. Fold in the left leg and put the left foot so that the heel is pushed well into the fold of the groin . . . Then fold in the right leg, grasp the foot and place its sole uppermost on the folded left leg . . . Sit up straight and then without pausing lean the trunk forwards as far as possible, stretching the arms vigorously behind you, right hand grasping left wrist. . . Breathe deeply in this position for a few seconds, then...
...parish records, he and Anne Hathaway were married posthaste, without the customary three readings of the banns-Anne was three months pregnant. By Elizabethan standards, Anne's pregnancy was no great scandal, but her age -an antique 26 or so to Will's 18-was. The sole clue as to how they got on together is a rather ambiguous bequest in Shakespeare's will: "Item, I give unto my wife my second-best bed with the furniture." Since Will spent most of his mature years in London, leaving Anne and their children behind in Stratford, it might...
...look as though you've got money to spare. I'm Minnie Guggenheimer and I need it.' " Smelling Rain. The success or failure of a stadium season depends as much on the weather as it does on donations. Minnie has the sole responsibility for canceling a concert (at a loss of as much as $30,000) in case of rain, and the responsibility weighs heavily on her. Once, so the story goes, after she had decided to gamble on a concert against the advice of the Weather Bureau, she scurried to the footlights and said...
...Bachelor Hayes figured in gossip items with Joan Blondell and Barbara Hutton. and made the headlines for lasting two long months as the fiance-of-the-moment of Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor. Hal Hayes also had another, essential side-the money-making side. He is the founder and sole proprietor of what he claims is the world's largest individually owned construction company, which is building about $60 million in housing projects at U.S. military bases...