Word: yearned
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Sending these arms and giving extra money specified for use in Indo-China will help cut down the drain on the French economy. Each yearn France has spent over a billion dollars of her own money, forty-three percent of the military budget, and diverted half a billion in U.S. aid to fight this war. Once freed, much of this money could be used to build divisions for European defense...
...fishes spawning. Our souls scent the mud, and our eyes are gradualIy closing to the light from the bank . . . Lighten us and regenerate us in the depths where we lie. Save us from darkness and the plague. Let us be filled with that better life towards which we yearn with palpitating gills . . . And take pity on our small fry. Amen...
...translation from the French by Irving Yoskowitz and John Bowman is in good style (in spite of an occasional clash like "yearn to earn"). These gentlemen are also chiefly responsible for the attractive staging and fast pace of the production. The emphasis is on slapstick comedy and this generally succeeds in keeping the ridiculous script from falling flat. The orchestra under Edward Troupin is excellent; this is one of the few student productions that I have ever heard where the orchestra did not overbalance the vocalists...
They say in total truth: "We aren't going anywhere," and ask why, then, they must patrol and probe and await the sniper's bullet or the shell that may find them on their hills, and why they must be there at all. They do not yearn to leap from their lines and drive across the snow-whitened enemy hills. Far from it. But they do yearn for an end of this war and they would rather fight to end it than await an ending that never comes...
...very pretty, very candy-box, very deadpan, but not what I needed. Claire has distinction, an enormous range, and, underneath her sadness, there is this bubbling humor, so unexpected, so wistful." Claire is a pretty girl, but no beauty: the quality that makes critics and plainer-spoken men yearn over her is charm-a charm to whose single-minded cultivation she has devoted her whole, determined young life. One critic has compared this quality to "the wistful beauty of a lonely blossom of wood sorrel." Of her Juliet, another wrote that she gives "a sweet new agony to the supreme...