Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil's Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda (D.I.P.), having allotted a part of the hour to a U.S. program beginning next Monday, accepted the Rockefeller Committee's invitation to send advisers and writers to make the program hum in good Portuguese. Head of the delegation is Dr. Assis de Figueiredo, D.I.P.'s assistant director, who will stay in the U.S. a few weeks. With him were the head of D.I.P.'s radio division, Dr. Julio Barata, and three writers, Raymundo Magalhães, Origines Lessa and Pompeu de Souza, all of whom brought their families...
What the anthem still needed most was not new harmonies but a singable melody. (A streamlined, octave-cheating version by Bandleader Vincent Lopez had failed to catch on.) Best way to sing The Star-Spangled Banner is still the conventional way: by hum...
...roof pointing to the airport. Workers at the Navy Yard were released from work. Autos were frozen in parking lots and immobilized on the streets, and children were excused from schools. The sound of an automobile backfiring, truck wheels rumbling, of ambulance and fire-engine sirens moaning, of the hum of the regular commercial plane bound for New York-all this took on an ominous note....Office windows measured for blackout curtains. The realization that it could happen here has dawned on the city...
...machinery of the National Defense Mediation Board, which had been hum ming for eight months, finally coughed and groaned to a virtual halt. When the board's decision went against John Lewis in the captive-mine dispute, C.I.O. members resigned and C.I.O. withdrew its disputes from the board's dominion. Since C.I.O. and labor disputes are practically synonymous, the board was left with no work to do. Last week in Washington, board stenographers polished their bright red fingernails; some board members went off to fish...
...over the Moscow radio by a voice which was high-pitched and soft. The voice was unemotional but it evoked the greatest human emotions, not only pity and fear, but pride and willingness to die. The radio gave the voice a hollow quality. Behind the voice there was a hum which probably was a German air raid but sounded like doom...