Word: ten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being progressive. General Manager Edward Johnson works on the theory that his customers like what they have been given, because they come back for more. Season-ticket holders buy out 85% of the house in advance, and take potluck. More than half of them have held seats for ten years; 10% of them for 40 years. Says Johnson: "Why should we force a new venture when we can sell out the house with Rigoletto?" And, unlike Broadway theaters which can play a hit nightly until it pays off, the Met plays each opera only four or five times a season...
...Vancouver, Wash., who wears pigtails and looks younger than her 29 years. No one gave her (or any other U.S. woman) a chance against Europe's talented stars. She was the first to ski down the tricky special slalom run, which had thawed and frozen again. For ten minutes she stood nervously at the top of the run, her eyes closed most of the time, while officials tested the electric timing device and fussed with the position of the gates. Then...
...class of high-school seniors in Los Angeles took a pledge to give the Golden Rule a ten-day trial at home. Their families were not to know anything about it. When the ten days were up, the Golden Rulers reported their triumphs...
...first," wrote one boy, "I was just waiting for the ten days to be up so I could knock the socks off my sister. But as the days went on, I started to think differently. My parents were amazed I could be so generous and thoughtful." In another school, a little girl who had been fiercely anti-Japanese wrote a theme on tolerance. "If a Japanese came to my school," she said, "and asked me for a pencil, I wouldn...
...detailed reconstruction of the tragic 1944 Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, a story full of confusion at the time, but one that in his telling becomes pathetically plain. On July 29, 1944, a Moscow broadcast urged Warsaw to revolt to hasten the entry of Russian troops, then only ten kilometers away. The underground Polish army, led by General Bor, went into action on Aug. 1. The next day it had two-thirds of Warsaw under control. As the Nazis hit back with savage plane attacks, Polish emigré leaders begged the Russians to send planes over Warsaw to drop munitions...