Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle Hymn. High among the wild, beech-clad uplands, not far from the cave where a German bomb wounded Tito in 1943, the old campaigner of the Balkan Mountains and the younger conspirator of the Cairo barracks spent the night together in an army tent. Tito regaled his guest with the story of how his desperate 19,000, surrounded by a ring of 120,000 German and other troops, buried their hard-won field guns, slaughtered and ate their packhorses, and then, losing nearly half their number in the charge, fought through the supposedly impassable Sutjeska River canyon, broke through...
...firsts. He attended the first service and the first wedding in Architect Oscar Niemeyer's swooping, triangular Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima. With his family and chef he moved into Niemeyer's long, low Palace of the Dawn, acted as host at the first dinner dance, spent his first night in the sumptuous presidential bedroom, took the first bath in the sunken marble presidential bathtub...
...networks. With some honorable exceptions, the locals' standard fare consists of the so-called "Top 40" tunes (mostly rock 'n' roll), news-headline teasers, whooped-up contests and giveaways, voices of home-town deejays that every housewife learns to know and like during her lonely hours spent over dishes, ironing board and stove. More and more, local affiliates are dropping network shows; even the familiar 27-year-old broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday matinees have been canceled out by some ABC stations. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. disaffiliated its five stations from the networks (four from...
...giant." The proud father did not know how close his prophecy would come to the truth. By the time Yoshimitsu entered senior high at 16, he towered 6 ft. 7 in. At this time he began to have blinding headaches and tired so easily that he spent most of his time lying at home on a tatami. School doctors diagnosed Yoshimitsu's trouble as a hormone imbalance, recommended that he see a specialist, but Father Koji was afraid of the cost...
Beadle might be a farmer today if the Wahoo high school had not had a teacher, Miss Bess McDonald, with the gift of infectious enthusiasm. She taught physics and chemistry, and young George fell in love with both her and her sciences. He spent long evenings at her house, wrapped in his schoolboy crush, and listened to her attempts to convert him to an unusual religious sect whose name he does not remember. He never hit the sawdust trail, but when Miss McDonald's religious appeals failed, she started persuading him to go to college. His father expected...