Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attributing of "sexiness" to Gounod, that master of banality in music, shows a lack of discernment somewhere. Cesar Franck, a devout Catholic, wrote music whose sensuality is unsurpassed in the late romantic era. His models were Liszt and Wagner, both of whom did their level best to transfer their sexual emotions to music. But who knows that the Bach fugues that some consider so dry and pedantic at this time were not the height of voluptuousness when they were created? And Mozart, who so often is accused of superficiality, was in a sense the Wagner of his time, only...
Alice is a brisk, sober, sandy-haired woman, with thin lips and level blue eyes. Even when she was a rookie, fellow cops on the auto-theft detail admired her for her cool nerve. She went anywhere, any time, and she carried her blue .38-caliber service pistol as naturally as she did her handbag. In a year, she built up quite a record of arrests...
Swallowing a regret that it should take place on a military level only, one can still examine with interest this approach to accord. The force suggested by the United States to the four other subscribing powers would consist of twenty divisions, 1250 bombers, 2250 pursuit planes, and a variegated complement of assault ships and cruisers. The total number of men involved might approach the million mark, but the force would in any event be large enough to "halt any conflict, though not too large to constitute too heavy a burden," as the French delegation reservedly...
...Federation Aeronautique Internationale in the days when airplanes were made of sticks and cloth and wire. To establish an official speed record, a plane must stay below 75 meters (246 ft.) over the measured course, and it cannot rise above 1,312 ft. on the turns beyond. Such low-level flying is hampering and hazardous for modern, high-speed jet planes...
...avoid the bends (caused by nitrogen bubbles in the blood), high-altitude flyers during the war usually breathed pure oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen and helium, for an hour or more before taking off. But they suffered no ill effects because they breathed it at ground level atmospheric pressure...