Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps three million stunned people, jampacked in a city that normally houses about 1,000,000, scanned the sky or scurried to the shelters they had hoped never to use. Now the drone grew mighty, the wings trailed shadows over the rooftops. But no bombs yet, for a brief space. Only the glint and flutter of leaflets falling, with this message...
Bobo Newsom was right. He was the Dodgers' best pitcher. But the Old Showboat's arrogance got Manager Leo ("Lippy") Durocher's goat. When it came to a showdown last week-after Bobo's suspension for insubordination had caused a brief "sympathy strike" among his teammates-Dodger Boss Branch Rickey upheld Durocher. Newsom, only three years ago reputed to be baseball's highest-paid pitcher, was waived out of the National League, traded to the St. Louis Browns...
Sennets and Tuckets. Technically, a fanfare is a brief passage (from two to 25 seconds) for brasses, employed as an attention-getter for what follows. The Goossens fanfares, however, are more elaborate compositions, some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested by their titles-Cowell's, for example, uses a Mexican air. Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets...
...because he is a man of solid sense, who was raised to respect plain arithmetic. He knows that a public debt of $137,000,000,000 cannot be merely whooshed away by wishful thinking; that some time someone must put cash down on the barrelhead. In brief, war or no war, he does not live in a dreamworld of frenzied finance...
Attack on the Beach. While Ike Eisenhower caught his brief nap, war broke loose on the southeastern shores of Sicily. First a blistering wave of air power flicked over the elected zones. Then the destroyers stood in from the sea and began a graceful, weaving parade offshore, their guns shooting tongues of flame at enemy pillboxes and strong points on land. Farther out battleships lobbed their heavy shells in high-arc interdictory fire to smash highways and crossroads deeper in the invasion area...