Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Canadian policy was set forth in a more direct and specific form than the British position. As stated by External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson, and discussed privately by Ottawa officials, Canada's view ef the situation added up to this...
Wealthy and devoted Mary Burrell considered Wagner's early biographers little better than "scribblers" who had merely "touched up" the great composer's autobiographical fragments. Even while Wagner was alive, she set out to track down every relative, friend and acquaintance, gather material for a biography "that would tell all." Before she was through she owned 840 items, mostly letters, and the printer's copy of the first edition of Wagner's My Life, which Wagner himself had suppressed. She made a start at writing, but died, in 1898, before she reached the point in Wagner...
...bettors made Noor the favorite at 7 to 10; Hill Prince went off at 7 to 2. Ponder broke characteristically late, along with Noor and Hill Prince. All the early action was up front, where Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's filly, Next Move, was setting a blistering pace, closely followed by Palestinian and Assault. Noor got moving on the turn (see cut), blazed down the stretch to win by a length over Palestinian. Hill Prince was three lengths farther back, with Next Move fourth, Ponder fifth. Noor's drive set a track record...
Leaving the rest of the party snug in the monastery, Dr. Charles Houston of Exeter, N.H. (son of Leader Houston) and Major H. W. Tilman, veteran British mountain climber, hired three Sherpa porters to do the heavy toting and set out for the mountain, which towered abruptly above them. They faced a part of Nepal which is wholly unexplored except by natives...
...White House, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross had just finished briefing correspondents on the progress of the Truman-Attlee meetings (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Sitting in his big leather chair, lean, long-faced Charlie Ross leaned back to light a cigarette, waited for the television men to set up their cameras so he could repeat part of the briefing for them. It had been a hard, crisis-crowded day, and he looked bone-tired. Suddenly, the cigarette fell from his lips and he slumped sideways in his chair. Within seconds, Charlie Ross was dead of a heart disease...