Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...answer was that the Joint Chiefs had taken a second look at Alaska and this time had seen it through airmen's eyes. To fireside strategists, equipped with an armchair and a globe, the Aleutians might look like neat steppingstones from Asia up to the North American continent's front door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple...
...been included because all the village insisted she must have land. "She works like a man," they said. She had many children, so she was entitled to draw two lots. A great shout rose from the crowd over her first drawing: Maestria lot No. 7. On the second ballot she again drew a good lot. Someone at the back of the crowd cried: "Luck knows whom to help. Luck is always right...
...Brazilian army rose in a bloodless coup to overthrow Dictator Getulio Vargas. Ever since, the date has been celebrated as a kind of second independence day,* with speeches about democracy and grateful bows to the army for ending 15 years of strong-arm rule. This year, with presidential election tallies showing Getulio Vargas leading almost two to one, Brazilians wondered whether or not the Oct. 29 "Week of Democracy" would be observed. Last week the army, navy and police gave them the answer: since no one had ordered any festivities, there would be no celebration...
Taken together, the two big scenes are profoundly Shavian. In the first, the college-bred daughter understands and forgives her slum-born mother for having made a living out of brothels. In the second, she denounces her mother for making a fortune out of them. As a notorious woman's daughter, Vivie is naturally stiff-necked and stern in judgment; as a bad woman who has tried to be a good mother, Kitty Warren is naturally sentimental and defensive. Their personal relationship-beyond all considerations of economics or ethics-is irreconcilable. Few Broadway playwrights now in full bloom would...
...March. Married to a onetime University of Barcelona law student who is now her personal manager, Victoria says she would really like just to "sit in our house in Barcelona." She has small chance. After a second Manhattan recital this month she will fly to Paris for a concert, then to London's Covent Garden to sing in Manon, La Bohème and Lohengrin, then on to La Scala...