Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to move there. They found a $25-a-month "studio"-a single room above Manhattan Public Relations Man. Pendleton Dudley's garage-and used it as a bedroom, sitting room and office. The Wallaces cooked on a two-burner gas stove in the corner, washed in a stall shower in the garage below...
...into a steep climb. It turned back over the field at 170 m.p.h., did tight circles and vertical banks. Then the pilot cut his speed to a plodding 55 m.p.h. and drifted over, waggling his wings to show his control of the aircraft even on the brink of a stall. At the landing, the brakes stopped the plane within 500 feet...
...turns out to be fairly pleasant work. By abducting the beautiful daughter (Jody Lawrence) of a Riff chieftain on the eve of her reluctant wedding to the head of a rival tribe, the legionnaires disrupt a tribal alliance and stall the attack. Lancaster outfights and outfoxes the Arabs' desperate attempts to recapture the spitfire, while keeping his men's paws off her and taming her into submissive love...
...with him. According to the plan the House dean would coordinate the new tutorial system, seeing to it that every concentrator in one of the five large departments had an opportunity for group tutorial with other students in his House, and it possible, with a tutor on the House stall. The new emphasis on the House system seemed a worthwhile gain...
Flannery's horseflesh is several stables away from the stiffly noble equines of the classic English and American horse-painter schools. Flannery horses are just characters in a series of mobile sketches of racing life-from a newborn foal shakily standing in its stall to the slow circling of two-year-olds going to the post at Saratoga. His subtly patterned scenes are the work of a man who lives close to his subjects...