Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Tribune told what happened when several hundred trapped Reds stormed two U.S. artillery batteries. "In action of a type seldom seen outside American Civil War prints, the artillerymen leveled their 105-mm. howitzers at enemy troops which at times penetrated within a hundred yards of the guns. With fuses set at zero, the artillerymen were using Charge 7-the maximum powder charge a 105 will take. Charge 7 is almost as rough on the guns as it was today on the Reds." Three out of the batteries' four guns were burned out, but the Reds failed to take them...
...Manhattan living room one day last week, an eight-year-old boy, his eye on the clock, said: "Mummy, I want to see Howdy Doody." Obediently his mother went to the television set. As the screen flickered to life, the face that appeared was not the familiar, freckled countenance of the famous TV puppet, but the cold, clean-cut face of a man talking Russian. Said the little boy, in a voice foreboding tears: "I want to see Howdy Doody...
...name that went with the face was Jacob Malik. He appeared as a broad-shouldered, blond figure, slimmer on television than he actually is, with a hard-set jaw, impassive and unsmiling. Often he stared balefully at his unseen audience; sometimes he scribbled notes or leaned back to catch the whispers of three Russian aides sitting behind him. Hour after hour, in a dry voice that rarely rose in audible anger, meticulously using the same phrases and arguments, meticulously carrying out his orders, he lied...
...once-lurid old composer had turned headily intellectual. The basis of his last operatic plot was an argument that had long fascinated him: Which should come first, words or music? With Friend Clemens Krauss, conductor of the Munich Opera, writing the libretto, Strauss had set about transferring the argument to the stage...
...Set in Paris in 1775, Capriccio concerns a poet and a musician, each insistent on his own primary importance. They both court a widowed countess, ask her to make her choice. Her pat decision: she has no right to take either because they belong together...