Word: boiles
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...Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded, "Doesn't music all boil down to a matter of taste?" "But of course," said Milhaud. "You have poor taste...
...claim that most experts do not believe. Other expeditions met only heartbreak or death. In 1924, just 800 ft. from the summit, George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew Irvine vanished forever into the swirling mists. And in 1952, without sleeping bags or even a stove to boil water on, a party of Swiss struggled to 28,200 ft., where sheer exhaustion forced them to turn back...
...remark, "Farming has little appeal for young men nowadays," made my blood boil. What's wrong with farming? Where else can you be your own boss without punching a time clock? And why do people insist on cracking those corn-fed jokes about the "dumb" farmer and his wife...
...legs since Sugar Ray Robinson. One day in February 1961, he showed up in Miami, where Ingemar Johansson was training for his third fight with Floyd Patterson. Could he spar a little? Cassius asked innocently, and proceeded to dance rings around Johansson. The big Swede went into a slow boil. "What does this kid do?" growled Johansson. "Ride a bicycle ten miles...
...Affection, by William Inge, has the impact of a tabloid shocker edited by Freud. As dramatic art the play fades out with the curtain's fall, but Kim Stanley's acting, Tony Richardson's direction, and John Lewis' hot-and-cool jazz score make it boil with sensual excitement...