Word: sures
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pianist Gieseking was one of the last men in the world who could speak with certainty on U.S. attitudes. Where politics and art conflicted, the U.S. had not always been sure itself. During World War I, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera (and scores of other U.S. concert halls) had stopped presenting the music of Wagner-only to feel shamefaced about it afterward. In World War II, the Met kept right on with Wagner, but did not present Madame Butterfly, because of the opera's cozy attitude toward the Japanese; it was quietly restored to the repertory five months after...
...player by the club."* But Lou had earned it with his spectacular triple performance-as the American League's best shortstop, its best hitter (.355) after Boston's Ted Williams, and manager of the league and world's champions. President Veeck threw in a handsome admission: "Sure, I tried to trade the guy off [in 1947]. But the fans wouldn't stand for it . . . So Boudreau made up his mind then to prove I was a jerk. That's just what...
...abuilding will be safeguarded carefully. The pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 65 miles east of Manhattan, will operate only when there is enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...
Association of Groundhog Day with Candlemas stems from the ancient belief, widespread throughout the superstitious Christian world, that a sunny February 2 is a sure forecast of a cold spring. As the canny Scotch put it. "If Candlemas be fair and clear, there'll be two winters in the year...
...United Brethren church ... I have one sister who is Christian Science, one who is Free Methodist, and I am Lutheran.' " When the interviewer asked how this worked out when they were together, she replied: " 'We have to leave off the subject of religion altogether ... I am sure we are not as close as sisters should...