Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music before was not a sufficient cushion for the impact of the Adagio; what came after was, as always, anti-climatic. The performances of the other movements left much to be desired, for the music of the Ninth overstates experience, and Koussevitzky's habitual exaggeration ill becomes the work...
...Army was pouring across the Rhine, the Navy was bombarding Okinawa. By last week more than ten million veterans of World War II were back; seven million were at work; 2,100,000 were at school or on vacation; 83,607 were hospitalized. The country had promised to cushion the shock of their return and the country, for the most part, had made good. No soldier could deny that...
...anything, the cushion was too soft...
...attitude of many a veteran, parked on his cushion, was: "I'll wait until things shake down." By the time things "shake down" he may find he has been shaken out. But these were matters for personal reflection and decision. The nation had tried to do its best...
...Darts. UNO had shown the Russians that the Security Council could not be used for petty tactical maneuvers. It had not, of course, really reconciled the basic forces in conflict between Great Britain and Russia; the forces were irreconcilable. It was UNO's job to deflect and cushion such forces, prevent them from colliding and exploding into World War III. The London meeting made it plain that the nations, pressed from below by war-sick peoples, had accepted UNO as the place of settlement-at least for the present...