Word: spendings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of two artificial gaits, a kind of running walk. Southern plantation owners, who used to spend long hours in the saddle overseeing their property, used it because while it covered ground it was easy on the rider. A horse's three conventional speeds forward-the walk, trot and canter-were either too slow, too fast or too uncomfortable for some early American connoisseurs...
...insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years' service...
...story concerns a typical Italian unheroic hero: a vacillating, tortured, sour-faced working man (Lamberto Maggiorani) whose only talent is to attract misery. He and his small son (Enzo Staiola) spend a grey Sunday scouring Rome for the stolen bicycle that is necessary to the father's bill-posting job. Their thief-chasing Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks...
Navy's ball handling was fishy and competent. In contrast to Shepard's double pivot attack, Coach Ben Carmevale pan his team from 8 fast arias cross well out from the basket, taking advant age of both the spend and shooting of his captain, Dave Mullaney. Mullaney, who played for Holy Cross in an NCAA tournament two years age, was all over the court, leading Navy's scoring with 24 points...
...many other schools, undergraduate organizations such as fraternities handle a major part of student life. Students live and eat and spend their Saturday nights in clubs or fraternity houses; undergraduate offices frequently become the particular property of a specific fraternity. In such schools, admission of a club can make or break a student's life...