Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive setting of the Sierra Maestra, women ate dried codfish and roots, tried to cling to femininity and spent odd moments applying treasured nail polish or borrowing some peasant's iron to put a crease in their riding pants. In keeping with the rebel camp's notable strictness, born of the rebels' single-minded attention to the tasks of war, the women lived apart from...
Last week that ancient advertising rite was celebrated in Variety's 53rd annual anniversary issue, a hefty (2 lbs., 6 oz.), 290-page publishing phenomenon (457 different ads) representing the combined efforts of ten operatives who spent a hectic six weeks putting the bite on showfolk...
...nonmusical family (his father is a real estate broker), he became a boy soprano in the Episcopal Church when he was six. By the time he was packed off to New York Military Academy at Cornwall, 13-year-old Robert Craft was an avid collector of modern scores, spent his spare time poring over copies of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps and Les Noces, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Says Craft: "I led a kind of secret childhood life...
Perkins said that a group of seniors suggested the dinner last fall, since the Class of 1934 was the first class whose members spent three full years in Lowell House. They were sophomores when it opened...
...Nicholas Sologubov finished the Russian scoring with a pair of goals near the seven-minute mark. Following this outburst, the Crimson mustered its only sustained offensive of the game with both the first and second lines getting off two excellent pairs of shots on Puchkov, who had spent most of the evening scraping the ice and examining the tape on his stick. The Soviet goalie proved himself to be at least the equal of his smooth-working teammates by turning away three shots which seemed certain goals...