Word: discordantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide; in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt sun and father. King Ledr, Act 1, scene...
...going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then proceed, for precisely an hour, to bugle a nicely calculated discord with the tyro burbling and burping perhaps half a beat behind the master bugler. You get used to it and after awhile you come to think of them as friends, too -not the ones you take into eternity, but as friends all the same...