Word: chordings
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...difficulties in conversation will strike a responsive chord in the cochlea of every hard-of-hearing person. She admired Malthus but could not understand him; he had a harelip and a cleft palate. Wordsworth took his teeth out after dinner, which made his most inspired words unintelligible to poor Harriet...
...Horace McFarland's letter [TIME, July 20] regarding difficulties encountered by U.S. ships at our Navy yards certainly strikes a familiar chord...
Soon afterward, Burl ambled over to CBS to sing on Back Where I Come From. A million listeners were soon tuning in regularly to hear the "Wayfarin' Stranger." Strumming a tentative chord or two, singing as though he were alone and were singing just to hear himself sing, Burl acquainted his listeners with such magic Americana as Sweet Betsy from Pike...
...five he was taken to see Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar Sultan. After one hearing he could and did sing long passages from the opera. Sometimes he would sit at the piano, strike a chord and lisp: "That's the stars." Sometimes he struck a treble note, said: "That's somebody looking out the window." At 13, he entered Leningrad Conservatory. At 19, he composed his First Symphony (one of the most popular) as part of his course...
...Before starting he sat on the set for a few days, watched Wyler shoot one apparently perfect take after another. "But on the 18th take," says Pidgeon, "I suddenly knew about Wyler. It was perfect, but it hit you in the pit of the stomach like a sudden, perfect chord of music. It made all those perfect-looking previous takes look like hell." When the picture was finished, he said: "I left the screening of Miniver trying to remember which of my scenes were in, which had been cut. For the first time in my life I couldn...