Word: spells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, Pinza spent a brief spell as brakeman on a railroad, then got a chance to sing King Mark in Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro Reale dell' Opera in Rome. Soon his reputation was made. Arturo Toscanini gave him a contract at Milan's famed La Scala opera house. There the late impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza signed him for the Metropolitan. Last year, despite the fact that Basso Pinza had his first citizenship papers, the FBI got irritated at some patriotic Italian speeches he had made, interned him, but released him eleven weeks later...
...more drastic controls earlier in the winter. Best explanation why the action was taken now was that the East's oil and gas reserves (the amount is a military secret) were running dangerously low. OPA hoped to avert a serious crisis in the event of a future cold spell or more pressing military needs...
...John Squire, like all poets, loves the euphonious past participles of our irregular verbs. So do I. But . . . English usage is just what we need to get rid of. It is overloaded with unnecessary grammar; and our mad persistence in trying to spell the sounds of our speech costs us the price of a fleet of battleships every year in writing and printing superfluous letters. The most civilized nation in the world, the Chinese, have taken our language in hand for business purposes and produced an English with a minimum of grammar...
...seriously injured in a brawl with some Fascist roughs brought about by a rare fit of indignation on his part in 1948, and his health was further impaired by a spell in a concentration camp under the brief Communist dictatorship of 1952. Thereafter his once considerable vitality seems to have deserted him. . . . From being a premature, he became a forgotten man. His immediate needs were relieved by a small Civil-List pension...
...recognized by many sorts of civilizations," and filial love and honor have normally been accorded those women who honestly earned it. "But I cannot think, offhand, of any civilization except ours in which an entire division of living men has been used, during wartime, or at any time, to spell out the word 'mom' on a drill field...