Word: stall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve then, and suddenly just about the richest girl in the world. She was gingerly brought up on the 2,500-acre Somerville estate. The most fun she had was with her pony, Patsy. She loved Patsy, and when the pony died she hung a sign on the empty stall: "Ponies do have souls and Patsy most...
...just a horse, it's Man o' War. I loved him best. A perfect gentleman, impeccable in conformation, beautiful yet not effeminate, with an eagle eye and a noble carriage. Yet I must say he was not without vanity. He'd be dozing in his stall and some visitors would arrive. He would rouse himself, get to his feet and give them that look of the eagles-lofty and over their heads you know. But he'd let me push him or pull him around. Of course there was a little cupboard love involved-I always...
Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters have not kept pace with the general enthusiasm is largely due to an unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that...
...Affaire 'Ardy" wore on, public sympathy swung heavily to Hardy's side. Paris' stuffy Court of Assizes (where Pétain and Laval had been tried) was crammed with veterans of the Resistance-and with their memories. Said one René Hardouin, owner of a coffee stall at a Paris railway station, who had sabotaged railroads under Hardy: "I don't know whether he denounced anyone. When they torture you, you give away anything, after a time. But Hardy is a hero, anyway." At the end of the trial Hardy, tired and unsmiling throughout, made...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...