Word: downbeater
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...While doing some crack-of-dawn reading in his St. Tropez villa, he heard a noise in his sleeping wife's adjacent bedroom, opened the door and bumped smack into a young burglar. "What are you doing here?" roared the conductor, appassionato. For answer, he got a fortissimo downbeat right in the kisser...
...Peterson went to France and gave up a tour of Provence to spend six smoky nights in the Club St. Germain listening to Solal. Duke Ellington heard him in Paris and immediately pronounced him a soul brother. Jazz-Hot found in his music "a fireworks of musical refinement," and Downbeat passed the word along...
Though the CAB and ICC are technically independent agencies, the Administration's downbeat attitude towards merger: is bound to have an effect on them. The proposed airline mergers would create lines substantially more powerful than most of their competitors, and the chief aim of the rail mergers is to cut costs by eliminating jobs and duplicate facilities...
...American Funeral Director, attributes some of this to the clergy's loss of income from funerals and to what he calls their general loss of status in the community. The undertakers' magazine, Casket and Sunnyside (there used to be a Shadyside, but it was abandoned as too downbeat), concedes that the minister "has every right to be consulted on the time of the funeral, and that he might have some say about other details, but that the price of the service is not his prerogative and he should not go into the [casket] selection room...
Rear Admiral Morison gives the Leyte campaign an orchestral sweep and grandeur. The individual sections tune up with snatches of preliminary air strikes and landings. There is the expectant, esthetic hush as the carrier task forces rendezvous west of the Marianas. Finally, the downbeat of H-hour sends the landing craft streaking toward the beaches of Leyte and the full tympanic rumble and brassy glare of combat...