Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashily upholstered saloon called Dixon's, a new outfit was packing in the big names of the nation's popular-music industry. It was called the Joe Mooney Quartet, and consisted of a clarinet, guitar, bass and (of all things) an accordion...
...paralysis agitans involved his whole emaciated body in one miserable stammer. Sometimes he could scarcely project his palsied voice past his lips. Sometimes, uncontrollably, it filled the whole room with its blurting bass boom. What gave him great dignity was the complete purity of his manner in its courtesy, diffidence, simplicity, and the pungency of his expression. Since, to avoid the fatigue of unnecessary speech, he edits his thoughts, his conversation has some of the finish of literature...
...materials and employing the latest technique. A recent stride has been the hush-hush releasing of high-frequency recordings done at 14,000 rather than the standard 10,000 kilocycles. At no extra cost, these recordings, so far only a half-dozen in number, feature bell-clear treble and bass tones and bring the overall effect of FM broadcasting to records...
...that afternoon four men going down a path to fish for bass in Dorcheat Bayou found John Johnson. Somebody had lashed him good; you could see the marks on him from head to foot. It looked as though they'd just naturally whipped him to death...
Reveille! In Cincinnati, Noah Bass, arrested for draft evasion, explained he didn't read very much, didn't know a war was on, slept "most of the time...