Word: diapasoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-manual affair that cost $11,500. It was a fine organ for its day, but before long, Fritz Mayer began to hanker for new tone colors and started a drive to get new stops. Families of old grads began to donate memorial stops-a double open diapason here, a contra bombard there, a tuba sonora, a tromba batalla or a vox angelica...
With all his skilled eye for detail and his affectionate eye for human trivia, Churchill never lost sight of the main objective. When he speaks of that, casting up accounts as they stood in mid-1943, the Churchillian prose rolls with the old indomitable diapason: "The entry of the United States into the struggle . . . had made it certain that the cause of Freedom would not be cast away. But between survival and victory there are many stages . . . Henceforward . . . the danger was not Destruction but Stalemate [yet] the hinge had turned...