Word: spent
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...attitude (definable as doing nothing and trying to be proud of it), New Jersey's conscientious Senator H. Alexander Smith, one of the strongest Republican supporters of the bipartisan foreign policy, had boarded a troop ship last September and sailed for Yokohama. He conferred with Douglas MacArthur and spent three weeks (at his own expense) in eastern Asia. Last week he made public his recommendations, which had at least the merit of being a positive attempt to deal with a tragic situation while it could still be dealt with...
Alben W. Barkley, 72, and his 38-year-old Missouri bride spent four days in Manhattan that allowed them little time for private handholding. But the groom's suave old politician's charm delighted newsmen, and the bride's trousseau enchanted the photographers. Arriving from their "Shangrila" retreat in Sea Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted...
After holding the confusing scraps of paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular...
Clutterbuck suffers acutely at times from deckchair gabble and shipboard sameness. Yet it is very often - particularly during an act spent ashore - both effervescent and funny. It boasts such small ingenuities as having Clutterbuck never utter a word; such larger achievements as making Mrs. Clutterbuck a fine blend of sappiness and wisdom. The show is the better, too, for good ensemble acting and-in Norris Houghton-a director who knows that with any soufflé it is timing that counts most...
Police were pretty sure last night that one student has been taking all the money this year. They speculated that she had already spent the first $90, and couldn't return it in the envelope yesterday morning...