Word: accompanimental
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To keep up his courage. Buie began singing the only song whose words he knew-Tennessee Waltz. After about the sixth chorus, his voice had splintered to a teeth-chattering accompaniment, and Buie began to lose hope. He dozed a while. Then, two hours after he went overboard, he saw...
Booth Led Boldly. Vachel began in Jacksonville, Fla., provisioned with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back...
The final Crimson football practice of the 1959 season ended last night in a dash down a flare-lined aisle outside Dillon Fieldhouse to the accompaniment of the Harvard Band and the hearty applause of a meager huddle of undergraduate well-wishers.
The orchestral accompaniment had its exciting moments, especially as in the extended tutti passages, but it was not an altogether easy collaboration. There had obviously not been enough time to become sure about catching the end of the solo runs, with the result that the last movement sounded grim and...
So in his Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up...