Word: bravoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever-widening vocal leaps and roller-coaster plunges, she worked up to her thoughts of revenge and-with a piccolo shrilling-to the murder of her own and Jason's children. The piece ended in a gloomy postlude. When it was over, the orchestra gave Thebom a concerted "Bravo!", and the audience, once it recovered its composure, called her back five times...
Outside the courtroom, thousands of bright-eyed housewives stood waiting in a drizzle of rain. When the verdict was announced, they broke into an ear-splitting cheer. "Bravo, Yvonne! Bravo!" The drenching rain trickled down their husbands' coat collars, and the husbands of France shivered...
...Bravo! for your stand. R. Osborn Salisbury, Connecticut
...many a foreign pilot cause to stutter and stammer. Last week the International Civil Aviation Organization, which sets stand ard international radio procedures around the world, brought out a new alphabet which it believed would be more universally pronounceable. The old and the new : OLD NEW Able Alfa Baker Bravo Charlie Coca Dog Delta Easy Echo Fox Foxtrot George Golf How Hotel Item India Jig Juliett King Kilo Love Lima Mike Metro Nan Nectar Oboe Oscar Peter Papa Queen Quebec Roger Romeo Sugar Sierra Tare Tango Uncle Union Victor Victor William Whisky X Ray Extra Yoke Yankee Zebra Zulu...
...magnificent-controlled and precise, full of charm and nuance, and as smoothly and sweetly toned as the famed strings of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Playing the Beethoven "Razou-mouvsky" Op. 59, No. 3 the same easy way, the young musicians displayed a virility and vigor that brought roars of "bravo" with the last note. Their glassy sonorities and petal-soft pianissimos in the final Debussy proved that they command just about every quality of quartet sound. The audience, aware that they were hearing what is probably the finest quartet of the day, refused to go home. The Italians finally responded...