Word: graveled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tuesday the SS guards made their preparations. All day the prisoners moved weakly around their barracks or stretched restlessly in the hot April sunshine in the narrow gravel yard around their barracks. Among themselves they discussed all the possible fates the brutal Germans might be planning for them, talked of escape and what to do, but none of them did anything. Years of imprisonment had taken too heavy a toll of their capacity for action...
...jungle boogie-woogie, sophisticated orchestration, 5-16 rhythms, Latin dance tunes and instrumental oddities. Manhattan's Philharmonic -Symphony, playing two of his major works (Choros No. 8 and 9) last week with Villa-Lobos himself directing, had to improvise for such strange percussion properties as the caxambu (a gravel-filled bottle...
Quick Start. With Flanders came 29 officers, 735 enlisted men, and 9,000 tons of equipment. Next day, while fighting went on in plain view, survey parties, each including six engineer-riflemen, set out to plot the new field. Within 24 hours they had bulldozed enough coral gravel to fill in 600 shell craters, and the first P47 Thunderbolt fighter landed...
...first real break was as the juvenile lead in A Guy Named Joe. After two weeks' shooting he was in an auto wreck, got a hole punched in his skull and his brain punched full of roadside gravel. But the Joe company voted unanimously to keep his role on ice for his recovery. And the accident, like the war (for which it incapacitated him) is, he realizes, as responsible for his popularity as his own personableness, which is considerable, and his seriousness about his work, which is boundless...
...medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes' eye for impact value rates much of the credit for the show's success...