Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...been the subject of 755 complaints from the Israelis since 1951. When a Syrian searchlight stabbed at the advancing armor, the Israeli unit commander coolly radioed his artillery base: "I would be greatly indebted to you if you would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing my work." Israeli shells zeroed in, and the light snapped off. As Syrian artillery opened up, the Israeli infantry bumped into a machine-gun nest in the presumably unarmed village, wiped it out with a grenade attack. After that the Israelis placed two tons of dynamite under the village walls and withdrew...
...toward Cuba, as written by President Eisenhower, is to keep calm and wait it out, letting the Cuban people, who have a long history of hating totalitarianism, handle their own problem. Amidst signs of Mikoyan's success there were counter-signs that Cuban love of liberty was at work. The student demonstration was a blow at Castro, and the perils implicit as Mikoyan courted Cuba were the topic of many a sidewalk debate...
...talks; Coach Smith had him over for dinner. Said Smith: "Warren asked me once, 'What have I done wrong?' I couldn't advise him on that one." The pressure grew. "Dorothy and I tried to stop seeing each other," said Warren, "but it didn't work." Last December Warren finally quit school in a bitter mood: "I was railroaded out of town, almost." He went to New York City, looked for a job; Dorothy soon followed-for a week, until she ran out of money and had to go home. But she did not forget Warren...
When newsmen buttonholed him, Bursar Lebohner said: "Education today is all about one world, and that idea has taken over. Many of her friends are amazed at our opposition to this romance. But this integration stuff has its limits. Mixed marriages don't work." Back at the police station, before being convoyed home by the Alfred police chief, Dorothy told Warren: "I want you to go home, honey, and finish your education. I'm going to finish mine. We'll have our day." Then she kissed him. Back in Chester, Warren's mother said sadly...
...included such pirated tidbits as the overture to Barber of Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher (1742-1806), known professionally as Dauberval and regarded as the father of comic ballet-Innovator Ashton was almost completely on his own. The only guide he had to the original work was the hazy memory of an oldtime (75) ballerina, Russian-born Tamara Karsavina, who danced the role of Lise in czarist St. Petersburg...