Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publisher, Dr. Albert Sirmay of Chappell & Co., has come on a trove of more than 100 Porter pearls stashed away in his Waldorf Towers Manhattan apartment. Dainty Quainty Me, Dizzy Baby, I Can Do Without Tea in My Teapot and dozens of others should spark the current Porter boom night and day for years. "There is enough material," beams Sirmay, "for half a dozen scores...
When the Pictures Start Falling. Despite the fact that Oklahoma City is an air-minded town with one-third of its inhabitants more or less dependent on the aviation industry, its citizens could not honestly say that they had enjoyed their six-month experience. The booms affected people and houses as far as 16 miles from the flight path. A total of 9,594 people complained of damage to buildings, 4,629 filed formal damage claims, and 229 collected $12,845.32, mostly for broken glass and cracked plaster. The reports on the experiment concluded cautiously that the booms did little...
...most decided advantage for the Quakers will be the home courts, which are hard and fast. The Harvard players on the whole play a slow-court game relying on steady ground strokes to win. The Penn players, however, are the boom-boom type with blasing serves and blast tactics: just the style for hard courts...
...shovel in the dirt might produce treasures to dream about. To prove it, communities like Diamantina, Turmalina, Esmeralda, Ametista dot the country. Last week the scene was Cristalina (pop. 3,800), an interior town some 60 miles south of Brasilia, once the center of a fabulous quartz-crystal boom and now devoted largely to agriculture and cattle raising...
...leave of her parental home. Finally there is the wedding feast: an obliging married couple warms up the bridal bed into which the shy, self-conscious newlyweds are then tossed by the drinking, brawling guests. Through it all the four soloists and the chorus wail, lament, cry, shout. Timpani boom, cymbals clang, bells ring...