Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sandy beach in the Concepcion suburb of San Vicente, Chilean and U.S. engineers and technicians were working last week to make a 20-year-old Chilean dream come true. Two years ago, San Vicente had been a peaceful fishing village sought out by tourists for its seascapes and broad vistas of green forest stretching to the banks of Chile's largest river...
...airplane is supported by the reaction between its stationary wings and the air that strikes them as the plane moves horizontally. A bird is supported in the same way. The broad inner portions of its wings, which move less than the tips, are kept at any angle of attack that gives them maximum lift...
...from one door of the castle's great hall to another, until all its seven doors are unlocked. But neither radio listeners nor Dallas concertgoers (who saw a concert version) had to worry about that. Bluebeard's doors gave Bartok plenty of chance for variety, e.g., a broad, majestic theme in full brass when Judith opens the door looking out upon Bluebeard's rich manorial lands; harp arpeggios when Judith comes upon door No. 6 and the pool of water signifying the vale of tears. Hungarian Bass Desire Ligeti and Soprano Olga Forrai had few standout moments...
...Playwright-Director Garson Kanin was looking for an actor to play the roughneck lead in his Broadway comedy, Born Yesterday. What he had in mind was someone along the craggy lines of a jowly, broad-shouldered radio announcer he had known back in the days when he was writing soap operas. ". . . You know," he would impatiently finger-snap, "a Paul Douglas type-but an actor." Unable to find a reasonable facsimile, he finally hired the real thing: Paul Douglas. It was a happy piece of casting; Douglas turned out to be as big a hit as Born Yesterday...
...Stephen Spender, who had set out to purge the English soul of bourgeois stodginess and English poetry of romantic fripperies. The English soul remained pretty much undented, but poetry did get a badly needed injection of vitality and wit from Auden & Co. MacNeice did his part by writing broad barrel-organ lyrics...