Word: accordion
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...interfaith chapel of the U.S. Air Force Academy, to be constructed outside Colorado Springs, Colo., was designed, said its architects, to dominate the entire academy. After the U.S. public saw pictures of preliminary models-the chapel looked like a cross between an accordion and a caterpillar (TIME, May 23)-it became obvious that the building would also dominate the controversy over the academy's ultramodern architecture...
After their solitary confinement ended, they had the use of a library (Balzac, Hugo, etc.). and were allowed to play tennis with crude rackets and a thin rubber ball. Lieut. Cameron, a handy man with an accordion, wangled a cheap Russian model and taught the others to play. They got a daily Communist newssheet, full of propaganda, but saw only one American periodical in all their months of imprisonment: every week, Lieut. Cameron received from his brother, Bob, 21, a copy of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED which the Chinese passed on after inspecting it carefully and clipping out some of the articles...
...yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas, he may try the palace of Herrenchiemsee near Munich, where chamber music will be performed by the light of 4,000 candles. If, on the other...
...Musical Society's performance is true to the authors in all respects. The seventeen-piece orchestra, including banjo, accordion, and harmonium, gave each of Weill's melodies the rich, lively treatment it deserved. Howard Brown's entire musical direction seemed devoted to finding just the right expressions within Weill's jazz idiom and successfully capturing them...
...atmosphere, moreover, which pervaded the Garden Monday was not that of basketball but of a carnival. The feature attraction was played between a galaxy of vandevile acts, most of them so bad that they haven't been on television yet. There were jugglers, acrobats, gymnasts, accordion players, to al., on the program and the crowd loved them all. They clapped furiously at everything, except the game...