Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...
Would-be and has-been players will vie with Broadway regulars for a place in the summer sun. But, being more commercial than quaint, many a summer playhouse will depend more than ever on big names to draw vacationing theatergoers. Some stars will tour singly, others with supporting players or a whole "package" show-the growing bugaboo of resident troupes...
Calling innumerable heroes to vie with...
...complete round will be played before Christmas vacation and another during late January and February. The two winning teams from each round will vie for the Yard championship...
Grau had picked Prío, his former Labor Minister, to succeed him; he expected that Prío would continue the Grau brand of mild New Dealism. But for a week before the inauguration Habaneras were saying: "Prío will continue the work of the vie jo [old man]-till noon, Oct. 10." Nobody had to tell Prío that Grau's popularity had slipped, that Cubans wanted a change in the way their government...