Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...final pre-election ritual is a series of speeches by Politburo members. Malenkov spoke from Moscow's marble Hall of Columns, which the Czars built as a playhouse and where the dead Lenin lay in state before he was embalmed and moved to his red granite tomb in Red Square. It was a long spiel (some 7,000 words in its English translation), full of stock praise for Soviet achievements. The keynote lines were aimed at Western ears...
Evangelist Billy Sunday's likeliest successor was hard at work last week rounding up souls in the South. With a final rally that overflowed the 36,000-capacity University of South Carolina football stadium, hawk-nosed, handsome Evangelist Billy Graham climaxed a three-week revival at Columbia, S.C. that had stirred a total of 7,000 people to make "decisions for Christ...
Published last week in the U.S. was the final section of Msgr. Ronald Knox's brilliant translation of the Bible-Volume II of the Old Testament (Sheed & Ward; $5). Readers who are familiar with the graceful flights and sudden surprises of Translator Knox's Bible prose will not be disappointed in his mining of the beauties of the Psalms and Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, Job, Jeremiah and Ecclesiastes, whose oft-quoted "Vanity, vanity" passage he renders...
...Jethroe took a lead off third base. Rookie Brooklyn Pitcher Billy Loes had heard about those 89 stolen bases for Montreal; he got to worrying. Trying to pick Sam off third, he tossed a wild one. Sam trotted happily home while Loes disconsolately took off to the showers. Final score: Boston 9, Brooklyn...
That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...