Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Esterház (in eastern Austria), Haydn created operas, symphonies and chamber works whose freshness remains remarkably vivid. The Prince gave him a crack orchestra, and Haydn taught it a dramatic musical vocabulary unknown before his time. When it pleased him, he would begin a symphony (Nos. 22, 49) with a long slow movement instead of the expected brilliant allegro. Some of his effects were comic: in the finale of Symphony No. 60, the violins are asked to mistune their lowest string from G down to F, then pause in mock horror and raucously retune. At the end of Symphony...
Another junior sabre man, Ron Winfield, has speed and smooth technique but lacks bout experience. Senior John Gersh and sophomore Tony Abbott will wield their weapons at Holy Cross, but they will have to prove themselves in pre-Ivy bouts to crack the starting lineup...
...topic for cocktail parties, office arguments or debate from some distant sidelines. Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds no crack in our courage-no split in our resolve -and no encouragement to prolong his war in the shortness of our patience or the sharpness of our tongues...
...biggest corporations or the top rungs of government. Seven of Japan's past ten Prime Ministers had degrees from Tokyo U. Keio students, more affluent than most, have inside tracks to good industrial and business posts. Waseda's tough-minded, politically oriented students tend to get first crack at jobs in journalism, while Hitotsubashi is strong on languages and produces many economists. Also good in language-training are Jesuit-run Sophia and the Protestant-supported International Christian University. Except for a dozen top schools that compare favorably in academic quality with the best in the U.S., most...
Translation by the author: "Each [man named] Gille, while hoeing, uncovers a mole and part of a seed. Quickly finished, I call to the limping man that every pitcher has a crack in it. Is it a Chinese cabbage...