Word: accordion
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John A. Volpe, candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, brought the only noteworthy excitement as he arrived amid cheers and accordion music. Protesting his opponent's charges against his integrity, he said, "I am not going to get down to the gutter where he has gone...
...space, Echo I is a plastic balloon as high as a ten-story building, with an aluminum coat that refleets radiomagnetic waves of frequencies up to 20.000 megacycles. Its skin is only .0005 in. thick-about half as thick as the cellophane on a pack of cigarettes. Packed accordion-fashion into the nose of a Thor-Delta rocket fired from Cape Canaveral, the 136-lb. satellite was filled with sublimating powders that expanded into gas in the direct rays of the sun and caused the balloon to inflate itself in orbit...
...like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter Schlemiel, the man without a shadow, who is the fated enemy of authority, whether commissar or cop. priest or rabbi, and whose talent it is to make a wheezy accordion of all top hats...
Over the years, Cousteau has become as complex as any phenomenon he finds in the sea. He has tried his hand at painting (his pictures turn out vaguely surrealistic), relaxes aboard the Calypso with an accordion. Despite his scholarly air, accented by amber, half-lens spectacles, Cousteau is a man with an antic turn of mind, loves to improvise wacky film scenarios (a nearsighted bull gets contact lenses, routs the matador and escapes, only to starve because he cannot see the grass). But Cousteau is also a leader of men. When an inexperienced diver drowned trying to find the anchor...
...members of their delegation looked with apprehension at their next stop at Penn Yan, N.Y., a small farming community near Ithaca, although Voschinin, often the group's spokesman, said with a smile before leaving Cambridge, "I'm sure it will be interesting."Group leader, V ADIM LOGINOV 32, and accordion player, V LADIMIR FEDOSEYEV, 27, a music student in Moscow, seem to be enjoying themselves at the International Students' Association building Saturday night where they entertained Americans and others with several Russian national songs...