Word: staggering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some explosive material: the part of Frankie in Carson McCullers' Member of the Wedding. It was make or break for Julie. At 24, she was asked to play a girl of twelve, a poor little nobody-wants-it that has just burst angry out of the egg to stagger about on guessing feet, with one world in pieces behind it and the next not yet ready to offer its warm wing. The part was cruelly long and difficult, and the actress found herself braced between fierce tensions. The mood was Tarkington, but it was Proust as well. Frankie...
...vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration as inexorable as lemmings. Railroad stations are loud with the shrill confusion that only the French can produce, each family laden with an amount of baggage that would stagger a Sherpa-packing cases, bicycles, scooters, cooking stoves, tents, valises, net bags, fishing tackle, steamer trunks, camping equipment...
...moments last week, it seemed as if doughty little Premier Mario Scelba, whose government had staggered along for 16 months, would stagger on a while longer. But the day of reckoning came at last...
...Soviets enter conferences as they enter military battles. They open with a major offensive. They shoot the diplomatic works at their opponents. And when the opponents stagger they shoot another round. The United States already is late in trying to grab the initiative for peace. The wheels for a "summit" meeting are turning fast. The President should find an early opportunity to restate America's position on all outstanding world problems-a restatement that vividly portrays America's peaceful aims. He should reconsider doing this at the tenth anniversary meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco...
...ceremony will be the first of an annual series honoring "long and faithful service to the University," the Office of Personnel announced yesterday. In addition to the chairs and certificates, those employees with 25 years of continuous work will also receive extra vacations. The departments will have to stagger the vacations, however...