Word: infectivity
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...bare fists, takes everything his torturers can give him in solitary confinement-and utterly loses his courage. The Spaniard (Joseph Calleia), the only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages to negotiate an escape for several of his friends, yet cannot bear to break jail himself...
...orchestra a beautifully controlled flow of pliant, clearly articulated symphonic sound. No conductor has a more eloquent sign language for encouraging, warning, cajoling or just plain frightening orchestra musicians into giving him what he wants. Sir Thomas, unlike most maestros, seldom bothers to beat time-he seems able to infect musicians with the desired momentum. But always he is about the subtle business of communicating to the orchestra, by the contortions of his face and form, his own profound knowledge of the score, his emotional temperature, from the tender to the explosive, and his exquisite musical taste. Beecham is widely...
...agencies' first aim was to eliminate the red-light district. This project annoyed many Army commanders, who argued that running prostitutes into the street would only increase the difficulty of venereal control. Nonsense, said Charlie Taft: a housed harlot could infect 20 to 75 soldiers a night, while the problems of a streetwalker limited the number of her prospective customers to five or six, and "red-light districts tend to advertise the product...
...conducting. We had been rehearsing the music for several weeks and had it down thoroughly, but Sever Hall had never heard anything like what "Koussy" coaxed out of us at his first rehearsal. Something of his personality, of his naive, fanatical, almost religious approach to the music seems to infect anyone who works under...
Once before, the Chinese said, Japanese flyers had tried to infect a Chinese city with plague. In 1940 they had dropped infected fleas on Chekiang Province. The fleas were wrapped in little cotton bags with rice or grain, to attract the rats which catch and spread the disease. But cold killed the rats first...