Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole stadium full of politicians. Quarterback Roosevelt, having called for a line plunge on the Court Plan's three-yard line, found himself set back to the middle of the field. In the new situation he called for another plunge through the centre of the line, made a direct demand that the Court Bill be passed (see p. 10). Political observers scratched their heads, wondered what was passing through the quarterback's brilliant mind...
...little about the Supreme Court situation, and I shall try to do it in a very helpful way. ... I am for the President of the U. S. and I am for my country. I do not want to discuss the provisions of the pending bill. I want to direct your attention, however, to the havoc which this bill is now working in the solidarity of the Nation. . . . There is not enough left in this controversy to justify the hurt and the danger of what we are doing. ... As soon as we take the lash from above the heads of these...
...spoil Die Meistersinger by withdrawing two of its most distinguished stars-Baritone Hermann Nissen (Hans Sachs),Tenor Henk Noort (Walther). Herbert Graf had plotted entirely new staging for Mozart's Magic Flute, and Toscanini planned to conduct it four times. Of the 27 performances scheduled Toscanini would direct twelve, two more than Conductor Bruno Walter. To Walter was allotted Mozart's Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro, Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, Weber's Euryanthe. Conductor Hans Knapperts-busch, new to Salzburg, had the cards stacked in his favor. Rosa Pauly was to sing the title...
...around thunderheads is often gusty enough to toss a glider around like a canoe in heavy surf. The top of the cloud is charged with negative electricity, the bottom with positive. When this difference of potential becomes high enough a stroke of lightning cancels it. A direct hit by lightning has never been definitely shown to be the cause of an airplane wreck, but there is little doubt that the concussion of a nearby lightning stroke might suffice to send a comparatively frail glider down out of control or in splinters...
...husband had tuberculosis and she could not leave him. Rex cut his leave short, took tfiie first boat leaving, an old freighter which was practically made to order for Submarines. When a U-boat showed up, Rex did the best he could with an inferior gun, finally made a direct hit-but a few seconds too late to stop the torpedo which blew the freighter sky high...