Word: ee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...playing our song, that they speak for us, while the bands of the past were just literature. On their cleverly titled album, Stupid, Stupid, Stupid, Black Grape seduces us with a smile, skipping out in front of their stodgity still-lounging-beneath-the-shade-of-the-Beatles-Tr ee British counterparts...
With the piano removed from the stage during intermission, listeners were finally afforded an unobstructed view of the orchestra and Yannatos began Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 at a relaxed tempo that suited the melancholy chords and the march-like id'ee fixe of the piece's opening movement. While the technique of the string players received most of the attention in the Rachmani-noff, the Tchaikovsky incorporated multiple solo parts highlighting the wood-winds and brass...
...California's most popular politician, Senator Dianne Feinstein, decides to go for the same job, then Checchi (pronounced check-ee) will probably be remembered as just another unsuccessful millionaire-politician with an expensive taste for public service. But if she doesn't run, the Democractic nomination may be Checchi's to buy. That's because for the first time in its history, California's gubernatorial race will have two rules that favor a tycoon with no voter following. The first is an open primary, which means voters can cross party lines; the second is a $1,000-per-person limit...
...ee lost his tuff in the fifth, though, giving up a solo shot halfway up the screen to Lou Piniella and allowing Willie Randolph to reach third before struggling out of the inning...
...some ways the exaggerated, vowel-rich sounds of Parentese appear to resemble the choice morsels fed to hatchlings by adult birds. The University of Washington's Patricia Kuhl and her colleagues have conditioned dozens of newborns to turn their heads when they detect the ee sound emitted by American parents, vs. the eu favored by doting Swedes. Very young babies, says Kuhl, invariably perceive slight variations in pronunciation as totally different sounds. But by the age of six months, American babies no longer react when they hear variants of ee, and Swedish babies have become impervious to differences...