Word: stormfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...basic decency. Unfortunately, the story didn't bear up too well under closer scrutiny. Speer's account diverged sharply from the facts in several places and from believability at others--the accolades of many critics notwithstanding. Speer was in fact a dedicated Nazi, who had joined Himmler's Storm Troopers in 1931 and the S.S. a year later. He never opposed such things as the Scorched Earth Policy on moral grounds; his main concern was that all that fine machinery be preserved. Though it receives little attention in his first book, Speer was a generally enthusiastic supporter of the forced...
...interesting dance with Judith Haskell, who doubled as choreographer this year. Robert Peabody as Flo Gently, who incidentally comes off with the best all-around performance, does this difficult drunken-dance routine in "High Steppin' Lady," and later, with Preston Folded (Mark Kiely), they dance up a quiet little storm in the "Cold Turkey Trot" (one of the funniest numbers in the show...
...track or three-track? That was the question when Hall sat down with Faculty administrators in 1974 to choose the type of storm window best suited to the University's fuel conservation needs...
Hall later disputed the $500,000 figure and denied there had been a Faculty-administration rift. Never-theless, it won't be until next year that the Faculty will be able to fully enjoy the estimated 15-per-cent savings that the storm windows will earn over regular fuel bills...
...exception to dignified behavior, an invasion of all-male drinking territory, washed out completely. When four female journalists plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...