Word: adrian
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...military spokesmen are Admiral Konstantin Rodionov and a Red Army political expert, Lieut. General Adrian Vasiliev, who now heads the Soviet military mission in Britain...
...Traubel is the greatest U.S. Wagnerian soprano of her generation. She has come a long way since she was just a St. Louis druggist's daughter with a fine voice. Now, with her heroic proportions (200 lbs.) exhibited to best advantage in sleek costumes by Hollywood's Adrian, her Isolde and Brünnhilde give her every right to queen it over the Metropolitan Opera's distaff contingent...
...basketball team (upset by Pennsylvania) had it out with once-beaten Navy (who lost only to Bainbridge Naval Training Station). Both teams suffered first-half jitters; both succeeded with the same basic tactics-keep the No. 1 scorers, Army's flashy Dale Hall and Navy's nimble Adrian Back, out of range...
This week Guatemalans lined up peacefully to vote for Juan José Arevalo, who plans to introduce "enlightened socialism," and his chief opponent, the State Department's friend Adrian Recinos. All Central America watched this pattern of successful revolution...
...supported himself by translating French novels, co-authored two in English (A Comedy of Masks, Adrian Rome). He was perpetually quarrelsome, frequently took a dislike to people, strangers included. He continued, within his limits, to live "riotously, with the throng." Once, when a friend tried in vain to dissuade him from living with a French prostitute, Dowson said gravely: "Our association is like that of Robert and Mrs. Browning.'' In 1900, aged 33, he went home to London...