Word: spills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solemn Zeal. Unlike Sartre's No Exit, where hell becomes a perpetuation of emotions suffered in life, Beckett's Play presents its posthumans as essentially bored, driven solely by an excessive urge to repeat themselves, as they gradually spill out what proves to be a conventional story about a man, his wife and his mistress. The urge is so strong, in fact, that the second half of the play is a verbatim recapitulation of the first half. Nonetheless, at the opening night curtain, a scattering of hisses and boos was obliterated by eager applause...
...American Society of Newspaper Editors that no one in the Administration ever promised Miro "or anyone else, that we were going to launch a military invasion with six divisions." Said an Administration aide: "Good God, we have all sorts of contingency plans, but we never could and never would spill the details to «-Miro." A fellow exile leader, Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona, said: "I never knew of a promise by President Kennedy for a second invasion of Cuba...
Purple Danger. Fred Wallace had been a bleeder since birth. The absence of AHG (antihemophilic globulin) from his blood taught him early to live with danger. Every childhood spill, every bloody nose, was agonizingly slow to heal. The scrapes and scuff marks of a growing boy remained for weeks as ugly, purple discolorations under the skin. But Fred, like most hemophiliacs, survived all such crises. Then the disease caused other problems. Last spring, on a Sunday outing, Fred and his father had walked away from their parked car so that Fred might snap a picture. Inexplicably, the car started rolling...
...Minsch-winner of Innsbruck's pre-Olympic race. Next day. Werner won again in the twisting slalom. At Mount Alyeska, he beat Minsch in the downhill-only to lose by a bare .1 sec. to another American. Plagued with bad luck. Werner took an inglorious spill in the 1956 Olympics, had to sit out the 1960 games with a broken leg. He intends to make...
...pressure of Egypt's millions, in fact, is one of the things that makes other Arab states wary of being too closely embraced by Nasser. Egypt, like China, is always threatening to spill over its borders into the relatively empty land of its neighbors. Individualistic Arabs, as well, are nervously concerned about disappearing into the straitjacket of Nasser's one-man rule...