Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benny once used a quick series of five plugs which furnished the home of a writer who was about to get married. But a writer often has to exercise all his creative talents to ease in a plug. Working on a racing yarn, one writer yearned to plug a well-known drug product. Solution: he named a race horse Anahist...
...York Philharmonic under Guest Conductor Thomas Schippers presented Samuel Barber's rarely performed Knoxville: Summer of 1915, set to the prose poem by James Agee, novelist and film critic who died in 1955. Conductor Schippers provided a well-balanced performance, nicely graduated to Soprano Leontyne Price's clear and controlled reading of the text. If the piece itself had a weakness, it was the tendency to overly luxuriant melody, at odds with the simplicity and the subtle rhythm of the language. Example: the line "he has coiled the hose'' had Soprano Price soaring dramatically over...
After only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...
...shock"), have even skated off the ice bewildered during championship games. Over the years, Plante had faced up to the attack without flinching, and paid the price: broken nose, hairline fracture of the skull, cracks in both cheekbones, some 150 stitches for assorted gashes, from sticks and skates as well as pucks...
...does all this survive? Most British schools have a new generation every six years; play-yard lingo ought to be highly perishable. Yet the Opies found little girls skipping to "Little fatty doctor, how's your wife?/ Very well, thank you, she's all right," a chant that goes back at least 130 years. Measured in school time, it has had more than 20 generations of wear. Children find it as fresh as ever...