Word: dashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suitably uncanny, at times it sounded like a good movie sound track rather than full-blooded, dramatic music. Episodic treatment (like the book, the opera is divided into nine separate scenes) broke the mood with each intermission. Moreover, critics noted, the Von Einem score was derivative - now a dash of Puccini, now Tchaikovsky, now Stravinsky. The opera's best feature : three scenes in which Joseph K. (superbly characterized by German Tenor Max Lorenz) is involved with different women, all beautifully sung by Switzerland's Soprano Lisa Delia Casa (who will appear at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera this...
...Hague with his hand on the radio key that was his link with London. The Germans wanted to make the link theirs; Lauwers, recently arrested, had agreed to cooperate. Suspecting that Lauwers might doublecross them, the Germans were ready to jam the signal at the first misplaced dot or dash. But Lauwers had no intention of straying from his captors' text; his British instructions, he says, called for him to garble every 16th letter. By omitting the prearranged errors, he would be informing London that he had been caught...
Fleet Skipper. Corny also became a student at Brooklyn's Poly Prep. He captained the swimming team, played end in football, and was a 220-yd.-dash man at school. But his chief interest was dashing off somewhere to sail. At 22, he won his first Long Island Sound championship in a Larchmont Interclub Class sloop...
GOODS & SERVICES New Ideas Unbaited Breath. For henpecked husbands-and others who don't dare smell of liquor-Merchants Distilling Corp. of Terre Haute, Ind. put on the market vodka with a dash of chlorophyll to kill any breath odor. The first 1,000 cases of green "Vodkafyll" sold out in Los Angeles in three weeks. While it works well for virtually tasteless vodka, chlorophyll is less practical in gin, Scotch...
Wildly cheered on by some 6,000 fellow townsmen, including his parents and sister, versatile Milt alternately sped and powerhoused his graceful bulk through the decathlon's exacting tests. He sprinted the fastest 100-meter dash of his life (10.5), and also took first in the 400-meter run, high jump and shot-put. Going into the second day with a big 717-point lead, Milt won the 110-meter high hurdles by nearly a second in 14.3, later loped heavy-footed through the 1,500-meter run to pick up a final 134 points...