Word: went
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive a car but in the fall of 1943 he enlisted in the Navy as a pilot. "I loved it," he says. "I felt I was dashing. I was very disappointed when I got out after two years of training, without getting overseas and without killing myself." He went back to Hopkins on the G.I. Bill, met Miriam Emily Nash, married her, wrote a novel that went unpublished and after a time began working nights for the Baltimore Sun, at $30 a week...
...used to send the dollar to the grocery with orders to bring back a pound of coffee. I figured this would teach it humility. Instead, it went into a severe depression which psychiatry couldn't cure because it has no way of treating a dollar unless accompanied by 34 others, which I didn't have at the time...
...instance, seemed doomed. Rehearsals were a continual change in dance steps, dialogue and costumes. The legendary Busby Berkeley was superseded by Burt Shevelove. But when Nanette finally reached Broadway, it ran for 861 performances, and then toured the country. Funny Girl (1964) postponed its opening five times and went through 40 rewrites of the last scene. Finally, Jerome Robbins was brought in as production supervisor and added several songs, including You Are Woman...
...Best Director citation went to another American, Terrence Malick, for Days of Heaven, a strong drama about migrant workers in turn-of-the-century Texas...
Georgetown University, noted for its school of foreign service, was evenhanded in drawing up awards. Last year the university honored the Israeli ambassador, Simcha Dinitz. So this year the nod went to Ashraf Ghorbal, 54, Cairo's Ambassador to Washington. Ghorbal was hailed by Georgetown as "a genuine member of the international cathedral of ideas." The ambassador, who stands a slight 5 ft. 3 in., was diplomatically not paired in the academic procession with fellow doctor of humane letters and former Boston Celtics Player-Coach Bill Russell, who towers...