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...graduate students, aware of the preponderance of serious discussion in the game, tried several times to lighten the atmosphere...
...digital computer the size of a cigar box, which, when hooked up to an amplifier and a microphone in a wind instrument, enables the musician to play as loudly as he wishes. He can also duplicate his notes over as many as four octaves, add reverberation or tremolo, and lighten or darken his tone quality. Vox has a similar device called an "ampliphonic stereo multi-voice" unit, to which a pedal may be attached to produce a "wah-wah" effect...
Instead, Pentagon officials had to go through all manner of contortions to explain why the MIGs had suddenly become a threat. For one thing, they said, the Communist jets have forced many U.S. pilots to jettison their bomb loads so as to lighten their planes for impending dogfights which, as often as not, failed to materialize. For another, when the MIGs are aloft, U.S. planes fly closer to the ground to avoid becoming targets -and that makes them more vulnerable to intense flak and small-arms fire. Moreover, as one Air Force general put it, if the MIGs were forced...
...blacks-on-the-rise who provide the cruel counterpoint of white degeneration. The "boy" leaves for a job in the post office, a motorscooter, and a sharp suit of store clothes on credit; the kitchen "girl," brooding on mail-order creams to lighten the skin and straighten the hair, achieves status and pregnancy by sleeping with the white "bass." On this level, integration makes a mess of both races. Archie Ferris expresses liberal sentiments toward the blacks; in practice, his enlightened principles are expressed by going on a three-day drunk with his ex-servant, who rides off with...
...market turned down again on the final trading day, with the industrial average losing 4.40 points to close the week at 787.69 for a modest 7.13-point gain. Still, a drop is traditional before holiday weekends, when professionals lighten their risk by lightening their holdings...