Word: till
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small, Plain Woman. "If you were [my] daughter," one of Henry's bullies once bellowed at Mary, "I would beat you to death and knock your head against the wall till it was as soft as a baked apple." Before long it looked .as though Henry, regardless of Spain's warnings, intended just some such fate for Mary. Terrified, she begged the Spanish ambassador for advice, and he instructed her to save her head-if necessary by acknowledging her father as "Supreme Head'' of the Church of England and her mother's marriage as "incestuous...
Kind Sir (by Norman Krasna) reached Broadway to a fanfare of trumpets, with $750,000 in advance sales already in the till. A Joshua Logan production starring Charles Boyer and (in her first nonsinging role) Mary Martin, its opulent costumes and decor half suggest that Miss Martin is still playing musicomedy. The whole thing may well prove the greatest letdown of the season; it is a sumptuous bore and a gilded vacuum...
...Does this mean that every top executive ... is a lecherous old wolf? ... Of course it doesn't. Your graduates will be perfectly safe . . . But it does mean that your intelligent, attractive girl will have a well-paid job till she marries . . . Your lovely looker will move into a stuffy tycoon's office and unstuff the stuffy...
Britain shoved this problem at the beginning of World War II, when she put all research and development for the services under the direction of civilian scientists. The great universities donated many of their department, chairmen to fill these posts. Military leaders till merely file requests with the chiefs of the scientific bureaus; they have little or no voice in the resulting research...
...girl has till eight before returning to college. She and her date decided on cocktails and dinner alone. The waiter has just left after taking their order...