Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants...
Dragons & Drama. Handel was just 26 on the February day in 1711 when his first opera for an English audience-Rinaldo-opened at the Queen's Theater in the Haymarket. The son of a German barber-surgeon, Handel had left his home town of Halle at 18, had spent three years in Italy schooling himself in opera and oratorio. On his first visit to England, he patched Rinaldo together in a scant two weeks. Based on the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), the opera was derided by Addison in The Spectator for its "Painted dragons spitting wildfire...
...Soviets turned out big crowds to cheer at every stop. Harriman addressed an open-air rally at the new Siberian iron-mining town of Rudny, several times spoke over local radio stations, was everywhere interviewed by Russian newsmen. Jotting it all down in separate notebooks, Harriman and Thayer spent long hours each evening disputing their impressions. When at last an article was ripe, Thayer would retire to hammer out a first draft behind a locked door, later return to defend it in heated argument over whether "entered a door" should be "went through a door," whether the Angara River...
Barrymore"), he prepped vaguely for his mother's perfume business at Columbia University, spent more time on Broadway than Morningside Heights. Even before college he was radio's first Jack Armstrong, the Ail-American Boy (salary: $125); as a sophomore he wangled a part in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset...
...Administration officials feel that the steel companies' insistence on no wage increase is an unrealistic policy, adopted entirely as a bargaining point-though they also feel that the industry is in a much better position to take a strike than in 1956. Up to now, both sides have spent so much time arguing the issues in public that they have not got down to any serious bargaining. The President's letter was calculated to give them the time to do just that, and brought fresh hope for a no-strike settlement...