Word: spells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preliminary games. Now Davis, a Williams graduate, had been the best pitcher in intercollegiate baseball for three years. His record was strung with one and two hitters, and he was almost unbeatable. Later on that summer he was to join up with the Boston Braves for a short spell, and was to pitch nine innings of hitless ball against the Phillies, composed of such sluggers as Gabby Cravath, Fred Luderus and others, only to lose the game in the tenth inning...
Only some $5 billion of this tax loss would be offset by the rest of the package. Various closing of tax loopholes and corrections of inequities, which Kennedy did not spell out, would recover $3.5 billion. A shift in the timing of corporate tax payments would yield another $1.5 billion-at least in bookkeeping terms...
Though the Pavilion was devoted to showing modern science, it looked as if it could have been the setting from a poem by Coleridge. From any angle it cast a spell. It had reflecting pools, stage-set lighting, delicate bridges, six buildings decorated with Gothic tracery. Inside, it subtly lured visitors along, stopped them just where the designer intended that they should pause and look. Probably no building put up in 1962 caused such a world of comment or brought into action so many cameras. Professional critics found dreadful flaws, but to almost everyone else the U.S. Science Pavilion, that...
Despite its possible long-term effects on the Western alliance, Britain's exclusion from the E.C.C. would not be a matter of economic life or death for the Island nation. But according to Hoffmann it could spell the end of the present Conservative government...
...superb performances are the sole merit of the overlong and confusing Tunes of Glory, but they make the entire film worthwhile. Under the spell of Alec Guinness and John Mills, one remains unperturbed by the foolish complexities that James Kennaway has tossed together as a plot, or the familiar characterizations of all the other actors...