Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train," Moncaster told his superior officers, "and I went to sleep. The next thing I knew, I was walking around a town seeing Russian soldiers on the street. At first the Russians didn't notice me, but on the third day they turned up at my girl friend's house and arrested...
After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular...
Auld Acquaintance. In Van Nuys, Calif., Angel Cordova explained why he had smashed a beer bottle through the windshield of Carlos Carrillo's car: "I thought he was a friend of mine who I thought...
...Loudermilk, an ex-undertaker and a large landholder, to give him a 99-year lease on some Dallas property he owned. Then he used the leased land as collateral for a $500,000 bank loan. Hilton put up $100,000 of his own money, and raised $200,000 from friends. He needed another $150,000, and he borrowed it from the contractor who was to build the hotel. Then he ran out of money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check to pay a plumber's bill, Hilton dashed to a friend...
...devilishly clever plot. Posing as maintenance men, they are hatching schemes to frazzle nerves, and prevent undergraduates from getting their rightful hours of sleep. Their purpose is clear--to turn brother against brother, friend against friend, mankind against itself, to produce a reign of terror of REVOLUTIONARY PROPORTIONS...