Word: adamantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three foreign-born piano teachers were only casual acquaintances in Europe, and they had not met in the U.S. until they happened together in the basement of Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Pint-sized, Polish-born Adam Garner just happened to have a copy of Bach's Concerto for Four Claviers and Orchestra. Young, Illinois-born Edward Edson, who was roaming the basement trying to select a piano, was willing to sit in as a fourth. So they maneuvered four concert grands into position, and gave the Bach...
...Japanese find U.S. democracy attractive but elusive. It is strange and foreign to the touch. Schoolboys argue whether Minshushugi means Marx, Lincoln or Adam Smith. Harried housewives wonder how long it will be before belief in true democracy can scale down the price of black-market soap. Said a greying Osaka politician: "We can explain the theory of democracy and even make laws about it. But to feel it, that is the big jump. Let's face it-Japan is being baptized at a very...
...Crimson rallied after playing some of its worst baseball in the first and second innings, when the Lions scored all of their six unearned runs. An error by Cliff Crosby and a hit by Adam Rakowski, who got three of Columbia's five safeties, netted two runs in the first...
...offensive segment of the Columbia attack is led by Adam Rakowski, who set a new Lion batting mark of .467 last year. He hit safely in 24 straight games over a three-year span, until Yale stopped him Wednesday. Charlie Klemovich doesn't meet the ball often, but when he does it usually goes for long distances. He has hit two homers this season...
...breezy, don't talk too much, don't mumble, don't giggle, don't argue." Furthermore, warned the booklet, "don't be a finger fidgeter, a hand washer, a clothing adjuster, a tapper, twister, nose puller, whisker feeler, or an Adam's apple adjuster...