Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through side bonuses, generous rentals, air-conditioned Cadillacs or airplanes presented to sheiks. But on one matter the major oil companies of the world, which may compete at filling-station pumps but frequently join in partnership abroad, were adamant. They would split with Arab governments only at the production stage, would not let governments in on the profits of marketing. This week negotiations are heading for a showdown in Jidda between the Saudi Arabian government and one of the biggest U.S. oil companies that could upset the whole grand scheme...
...some stage," Hammarskjold conceded, "a standing group of a few military experts might be useful . . . in preparation for meeting possible appeals for an operation." This kind of inexpensive and tentative preparation is also all that the U.S. State Department currently favors...
...York society (the impresario of the older, posher Academy of Music referred to it as "the yellow brewery on Broadway"). The architect, Josiah Cleaveland Cady, had never seen a grand opera, and he built the Met on the theory that its most important feature was not the stage but the boxes. At first, there were three tiers of them (later reduced to one), and the press simplified things for house scanners on opening night by printing charts indicating the positions of celebrities...
...demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing a medley of songs from past triumphs, nudged two generations of fans to misty nostalgia. Every dance number showed that TV choreography need not be uniformly awful; every stage effect taught the cameras new tricks...
...reason that Pioneer lacked those few more miles of speed is still being debated by the rocket experts. The official explanation, that its first stage climbed too steeply and so did not benefit fully from the speed of the earth's rotation, is not accepted by all. Another possibility is that some of the liquid fuel in the second-stage tanks failed to burn. A third theory is that the solid fuel in the third-stage rocket became chilled before firing and therefore did not give the expected amount of energy...