Word: dormir
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...another to see which would do the most to help the family. The judge reduced the parents' felony charges to a misdemeanor. "It's good for us," said Eliezer, instructing his family to hug for the camera. Linda just lay down on her mother's lap. "Estoy cansada. Quiero dormir. Dejame quieta" -- I'm tired. I want to sleep. Leave me alone...
...fling at Paris with a reasonable chance of success. Lately, U.S. "progressive" jazzmen on tour have been meeting with mixed reactions from the uninhibited French, who boo at the drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...
High point of the concert were the five Spanish songs by anonymous sixteenth-century composers. The two for Christmas, "No la devemos dormir" for its wonderful tenderness and "Rin, rin, chin" for its powerful devotion, provided an exciting contrast in religious feeling. But the delicate subtlety of this group were not sufficient preparation for the Hindemith and Copland with which the program closed. Although they fitted in far better than would any Classical or Romantic music, several of the Hindemith songs were spent adjusting the audience to modern dissonance and counterpoint. In the last selection, Copland's pictorial "Lark," Paul...
...copains (Welcome, Pals). Under a so-foot-high triumphal arch of crossed Allied flags are other bas-reliefs, each with a two-word legend illustrating the new-found (and realistically French) freedoms; the second word in each case is librement (freely) and the verbs are: jouer, travailler, parler, aimer, dormir, manger, boire and respirer (play, work, speak, love, sleep, eat, drink and breathe...
...heard to say, "You've got me dormie" (as many holes down as holes to play) when in fact his opponent is dormie. But he may say, "I am dormie down" (vulgarism). Origin of the word is obscure, but some authorities think it may spring from teh French dormir (to sleep, to be stagnant...
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