Word: highests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would-be conductor to The Stars and Stripes Forever, escorted Armstrong and then Collins around the floor between courses, stood to lead applause for the band during The Marines' Hymn, beamed paternally as he awarded the astronauts the Medal of Freedom.* Delightedly he announced that it was "the highest privilege I could have" to offer a concluding toast to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. The President seemed relaxed and already refreshed from his first few days of vacation in nearby San Clemente at his new Western White House. (He has passed the word that it is not to be called...
...Medal of Freedom, the highest U.S. civilian award, was created in 1945 as a wartime decoration and revived by John Kennedy in 1963 as an American counterpart to the Queen's list of Birthday Honors in Britain. In the Nixon Administration, the only other recipient has been Duke Ellington...
...decision handed down last week by Massachusetts' highest court is casting a shadow over the referendum for rent control in Cambridge, which was slated to be on the City's November 4 ballot...
MAHLER comprehended life and therefore his music as spiritual dramaturgy. His genius resides in the incorporation of every conceivable human mood and impulse, short of mordancy, into an art of the highest technical integrity. Anguish and exultation resonate with equal energy throughout his entire symphonic cycle. His dramatic frescoes are now disconsolate, now ebullient, momentarily morose, exploding with dance, suddenly peaceful, dreaming. The First Symphony furnishers a splendid example of his multitudinous and mercurial temperament. It is a sepulchral, reflective, affirmative, anguished sunlit work composed of Waltz, song, marc, and chorale. The earliest critics heard in it only a concertinos...
Devastating Attack. With a pitching staff that has been only occasionally impressive the Twins have had to depend on heavy hitting and alert base running to maintain their league lead. Three players are hitting over .300, and the team's average .272 is the highest in the league...