Word: upend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture Can-Can because we very much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced the song Live and Let Live, he said to Khrushchev: "It's a marvelous idea." And as he heard Frank talk, watched Shirley and the chorus girls upend, Khrushchev grinned. Going back over the Disneyland outburst, he said that the studio commissary had been hot, and he had been hotheaded, and he even apologized for his words. When Kim Novak was ushered up to him, Khrushchev said to Kim: "You realty wowed Mikoyan...
Says he: "With certain qualifications, I was a lonely and shy boy." Princeton seems to have brought out the qualifications. Lambert joined an eating club where, when the "food got too bad, we would upend a long table and shoot the whole mess through a window and out into the street." He recalls: "It did not seem at all odd to have five rooms and finally, in my junior year, to have a limousine with a chauffeur . . . Now and then [the chauffeur would] drive me in my Peerless limousine . . . from my rooms to chapel, a mere few hundred yards. This...
...first full day of Ivy League football play Saturday saw all the visiting teams upend their hosts. Besides the Crimson's 32-7 win over Cornell, Yale whipped Columbia, Princeton crushed Pennsylvania, and Dartmouth edged Brown...
...easy to see how extreme financial worries could upend all parts of the theatre. With no stable authority and many pretenders, each department tried to get as much of the budget as it could. And all the while Brattle kept its ticket prices...