Word: spent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salvation Army at the Copacabana, eight judges, including Aurelio, a Congressman and all the top Tammany politicos turned up in dutiful droves. But the newspaper headlines that bloomed largely and blackly the next day had the same, exultant horror that might have been expected if he had spent the night plotting to cart off the City Hall...
Bobbing Flotsam. Drifting, drinking rain water, munching the hard candy which was all they had saved from their emergency rations, the survivors spent a second sleepless night. Colonel Grable caught a two-foot yellowtail, but lost it before he could bring it aboard. One raft overturned twice; all but two flares were lost and the emergency radio would no longer work. Overhead, the men still heard the sound of crisscrossing search planes, twice sighted ships but were unable to attract the attention of the searchers...
Dodge, a noted physicist, stated that he had spent a lot of money on athletics, but "it didn't seem to have produced the results...
...Hugh B. Williams '51 and Frederick F. Williams, Jr. '50, no relation, were apprehended in the act of removing the sign by patrolman William Mullen, who brought them to the Dedham Jail, where they spent the night. In the morning the judge fined them $10 each, and Hugh Williams an additional $35 for driving under the influence of alcohol...
Though born in America, Grosz has spent most of his 56 years in Germany. During his entire artistic career he has depicted and satirized many types of human folly; but he has always reserved his most savage and telling strokes for the institution of War. "A Piece of My World" contains works by Grosz that are taken from many stages of his career. Despite a regrettable lack of dates on most of the paintings, the observer can follow Grosz' progress from early attacks on specific, topical subjects to abstract, but unmistakable blows at broad subjects like warfare and wretchedness...