Word: bb
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...several generations of American boys, the name Daisy evokes nostalgic memories of summer afternoons spent plinking tin cans with a BB gun. Daisy is still the big name in BB guns, but the company is now preparing to market a jet-age air rifle that is definitely not for small boys. Almost as powerful as the standard .22-caliber rifle, the weapon is nearly recoilless, virtually jamproof, and fires bullets without cartridges, primer charge or powder. Daisy is confident that it will be the forerunner of a new generation of weapons for both civilian and military...
Joseph Dwyer as Florestan had the task of singing what is perhaps the most difficult tenor aria in all opera. "Gott. welch' Dunkel hier" really has too many A's and and Bb's for anyone to cope with and Dwver showed severe signs of strain. Nonetheless he sand with emotion, a quality that had been lacking in the opera up to that point, especially in the men's chorus and the ensembles...
...major work on the program was Hindemith's Symphony in Bb(1951). This is the ne plus ultra of the band literature. It is music of real symphonic breadth and of imposing technical and interpretive difficulty. The humor in the piece, unusual for the effort of a German composer, was well brought out by the Band...
When Martha Graham took her modern dance troupe on tour in the 1930s and 1940s, her sensuous portrayals of tortured demons and demigods so outraged some audiences that one man in a Southern city took a potshot at her with a BB gun. Now, for the first time in 16 years, Martha Graham, a wispy 71, is touring the U.S. again, thanks to a $142,500 grant from the National Council on the Arts. This time she is drawing bravas instead...
...freshman game with Brown had a familiar ring, as the Brownie hurier walked the winning run in the ninth inning to give the Yardlings a 7-6 triumph. Also yesterday afternoon, the Harvard J.V. handed the M.I.T. freshmen a 7-1 defeat. Pitching Summary lp r er h bb so Lincoln 5 5 2 5 0 3 Munzel 1 0 0 1 0 0 Sersich (L) 2 1 1 2 0 1 McCandlish...