Word: stalked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June Is Bustin' Out All Over. The best performance in the picture, however, is given by Jacques d'Amboise of the New York City Ballet. He revives the tired style of dancing developed by Choreographer Agnes de Mille like a bucket of fresh water on a wilted stalk of corn...
...nights are biting cold; the days usually hot. The Cloetes are rationed to two meals a day, skipping either breakfast or lunch, but Bill frequently stops to stalk "some meat for the boys." It is against "the code of the White Hunter" to shoot game from the car, but at a distance of about 200 yards, "there was the usual bang...
...Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife with an ax. ¶ Lettitia Dalton, the vain and vicious wife of a rich Virginia planter, was quite a dame. One night she sent her sister Caro to an old greenhouse on her York River plantation to get some grapes. Poor Caro fell into a trap, died horribly in a shower...
...troubadourish vein, seek peace and unity in the heart of a whirl of fantasy. In a Farther Country fades out with Marietta and one of her wacky acquaintances revolving in a dream world to the accompaniment of a fancy Goyen epitaph: "Her body became like a long yellow stalk, going up to seed in her hair . . . The room was dark except for the flashing ... of the sign across the street that said Moving and Storage . . . [These] words . . . seemed to be the last pronouncement about human life...
Even before journeying to Africa, Adlai Ewing Stevenson made up his mind: he would stalk the G.O.P. elephant again next year. Last week Stevenson friends in Chicago and top Democrats in Washington were passing the word that Adlai has decided to try for his party's 1956 presidential nomination...