Word: indistinctness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpleasant choked sound in the lower register. Her performance at Holmes unfortunately revealed serious technical problems in handling the music. The Bach solo cantata was the closest to coloratura the Master ever came, and is a tough order for anyone to handle. Wednesday night Bach's elegant roulades were indistinct and slow; the tempo dragged at every soprano entrance. The accompanying trumpet, string quartet, and harpsichord, though. perfectly competent, was unconducted and therefore had major difficulties with ensemble...
...rudely resurrected under Nazi auspices, but it disappeared near the end of the war. In 1954, a new group took the famous old name and had another go at it. They flailed away at militarism and German pomposity, but somehow things were no longer the same. The targets were indistinct, the barbs not finely honed. Occasionally, as in its current issue, it found the mark. Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered...
Tail-Wind Fliers. With a Polaroid-backed camera set up in front of a 50-mile-range radar scanner, the scientists shot a succession of twelve-minute time exposures. As a result, the bird echoes-which normally appear as indistinct dots on the radar screen-formed easily discernible lines on the film that enabled experts to determine the approximate density and direction of bird concentrations. Meteorologists and biologists were then able to predict the location of the flock for the following few hours and warn pilots of its presence. "The predictions are based on weather and migration patterns," explains Engineer...
Scientists had ordered the picture shot to show the earth's terminator line -the boundary between the daylight and nighttime hemispheres-which they had predicted would be fuzzy and indistinct because of the earth's atmosphere. Inspection of the first rough print of Orbiter's picture showed a terminator about as sharp as that on the moon -which has no atmosphere...
...insignia of Denmark's large coat of arms. Its lions passant (walking, three paws on the ground, the right forepaw raised, the head looking forward, the tail curved over the back) and hearts are derived from the family design of the Valdemars and can be traced to the indistinct seal of King Knud IV dating back...