Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then put it on the air. It was quite a show, but NBC was missing a bet by not rerunning some of the old films of Van Doren in the Twenty One isolation booth, mopping his brow and muttering, "Let's skip that part of the question till later, please," and pretending to struggle for an answer that he had been handed, complete with acting script, a few hours before. Old Twenty One fans particularly remember one script, asking for the name of the character in Verdi's La Traviata who sings Sempre libera. "She sings it right...
...Poland's arrested revolution of October 1956. His compromising never sat well with the diehards of the Stalinist era, who believed in tough and tidy centralized control. Gomulka allowed more local authority for factory managers and town bosses, and peasants were permitted to abandon the collective farms to till their own plots-and did so with such fervor that only 12% of Polish agriculture is now collectivized. The mixture has been unstable since it began, and last week, as Poland suffered from another of its perennial economic setbacks, Gomulka sent for the old tough crowd...
...Guillaumont, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till, Yassah 'Abd al Masih...
...Bloomsday. the day everything happens in Ulysses. Nora had only a grammar school education, but when Joyce spouted his literary dreams to her and then declaimed: "Is there one who understands me?", Nora understood enough to say yes. She eloped with him to the Continent (they were not married till 27 years later) and he swore to "try myself against the powers of the world...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Guinness makes his U.S. TV debut in The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks, as a bank teller who embezzled cash, not by dipping into the till, but by depositing money in other people's accounts...