Word: hazardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high C will crack and degenerate into an ignominious squeal-or whether his voice will simply refuse to make any sound at all-keeps him in a constant state of apprehension. Moreover, the whole business of singing at the top of his voice and range presents an additional physical hazard. The fact that good tenors are always in short supply aggravates the other problems by encouraging the poor fellow to sing more than is good for him. It all adds up to a disease that might be called tenoritis. Symptoms...
...Extra Hazard. In the New York metropolitan area, viewers who wanted to watch either show were faced by an additional hazard-the necessity of ungluing their small fry from the channel that featured the 1933 movie King Kong on station WOR-TV's Million Dollar Movie. Some distraught parents reported that their entranced children had watched the single-minded pursuit of Fay Wray by the colossal gorilla every single night of the five it was shown. Said a happy WOR executive: "This has been the biggest thing since Davy Crockett...
Reconstructionist. In Hazard, Ky., Oliver Cole, 40, was arrested after neighbors phoned the cops, complained that he stood in the street pounding on a garbage can while loudly campaigning for another term for Abraham Lincoln...
...resolution of old age. In the portraits of the Ragpicker, Flowerman and Prostitute, Atget posed his subjects. At other times he caught people when they were so absorbed as to be motionless. But in this as in other respects Atget was a deliberate primitive. The technique was not without hazard. In one picture, a view along the Seine, exposed for the usual twenty to thirty minutes, horses which appear slightly blurred actually walked out of the picture. In most cases, however, the detail is exceedingly sharp; this contributes to Atget's concern for little human touches--a pair of shoes...
Most of the discussion revolves in four areas: the personal influences that are working on Ike to quit or run, the lifetime devotion of Old Soldier Eisenhower to a duty higher than personal influences, the correct direction of duty when a President knows his physical condition can be a hazard to the orderly processes of Government, the possibility that Ike might well be able to carry the load of the presidency if it were trimmed of nonessentials. In all of these areas the President himself has provided the hottest clues for both sides...