Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pennywhistle lyrics have also become the urban African's version of the bush telegraph, warning against fickle women, street fights and raids by the "head-bashers" (white cops). Some titles convey political messages. One called Azi Khwelwa ("We don't ride" in Zulu) was banned by South African officials after they learned that natives took it as an incitement to boycott Jim Crow buses...
...carry out orders from an incompetent division adjutant. Over the ghastly scene the snowy Carpathians loom like symbols of nature's indifference. But Heinrich neither needs nor uses literary symbolism. With a spare, brutal directness of language, he is able to show how men fight and die, convey the pressing of a trigger, the spreading stain of blood in the snow. Crack of Doom makes one thing overpoweringly clear: Infantryman Heinrich was there, and he didn't miss a thing...
...founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...often as dogs appear, and it is quite often, they never convey meaning so effectively as when balanced by rabbits. Normally, rabbits are meek, small, soft and vegetarian, considered harmless by most (Australians to the contrary), and virtually unknown in literature. They have large ears which stick up--a help in finding a rabbit in a crowd--and small, happy tails. Through no fault of their own they bear the standard of sexual fertility--an aspect of prime importance in determining their role as symbol...
...proposals suggest ways to convey more information about the College to the alumni, such as considering alumni officials of both organizations for positions on the Overseers' Visiting Committees whenever possible. However, the report affirmed the committee's belief that the Alumni Association and the A.H.C. should retain their completely separate identities...