Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them got arrested as pimps and panders, but beat the rap, making the police hesitant to try again, for fear of being wrongly accused of persecuting innocent men. The war years were golden years for the Messinas. After 1945 they scoured the Continent for likely women-for-sale, spent lavishly to enchant their prey. Of her date with Attilio, one girl says: "For the first time in my life, I felt someone wanted me. His voice was so soft, so ingratiating. I said to myself after our first meeting, 'This is a gentleman...
...unexpected happened at long last: one of the girls talked. Ill, exhausted and unwanted after ten years' labor for the Messinas, 39-year-old Edna Kallman told the police that Attilio hired a maid to watch her, and to knock on her bedroom door if she spent more than ten minutes with a client. Once, when she complained of having to work daily, in sickness and in health, he shouted: "I'm tired of this! I could get a 17-year-old who would work harder than you, and I could sleep with her as well...
...dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will have a radio-but one that cannot pick up Moscow or Cairo. Reading material is forbidden him. Burning Spear may never address a meeting or join any organization. Though he is a spent man, his power to arouse his fellow blacks is still respected by the British, who are taking no chances...
...Debussy. Violinist Polikoff, who has made a reputation for himself on radio, TV and in recording studios, started the series in 1956, now gives eight concerts a year at $8 for the full subscription. With occasional foundation windfalls he just about breaks even-not counting the endless, unpaid hours spent screening new scores and rehearsing. Nowadays he finds that it is easier to sell modern music to lay audiences than to musicians: "Most musicians stop with Debussy; that's the last 'new' music they learned to play...
...long time there was the matter of talent. The son of a Baltimore plumber, he was tossed out of the Peabody School of Music in short order. Diagnosis: a tin ear. He was 13 when he read that the Baltimore Sun was sponsoring a harmonica contest. He spent three weeks teaching himself to play, won, and wasted little time heading for New York...