Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...different nationalities lived in the same neighborhoods and walked together. As for their color, I had never seen a people of such varying shades of skin color and hair texture. The darker Cubans did not seem to suffer from racial discriminatory acts as they intermigled with their mulatto and lighter-skinned countrymen. We waved at them through the bus windows as some waved back. When we had been in Mexico City, motorists honked their horns impatiently, swore, cursed at pedestrians, and even called us names...
...mayor put an end to such speculation last week when he announced that he would seek an un precedented sixth four-year term. Though his well-known, raspy voice was subdued and his bulky frame some 25 Ibs. lighter after his illness, his aides insist that Daley has regained a large measure of his old vigor, and relishes his job as much as ever. His peacemaking role at the Democrats' Kansas City convention two weeks ago reinforced that image...
...strategic programs to those now planned, the U.S. will end the ten-year period of the accord with less than half the MlRVed throw-weight and less than half the un-MIRVed throw-weight of the Soviet side. The bomber forces of the two sides, in view of our lighter air defenses, would be of approximately equal capability...
...Andre's Carnegie Hall solo debut and his first New York appearance since his recent rise to prominence via records. On this occasion, Andre played a silver-plated trumpet only 13 in. long (the standard trumpet is 21 in.). At first glance, it looked like a trick cigar lighter. Actually, it is a modern trumpet specially designed for the Baroque repertory. It has four valves -the regular three for melody, plus one valve that when held down changes the horn's pitch from B-flat...
...turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter and, except for her voice, clearly tired. She is an indomitable optimist, however. "I was lucky the cancer was contained," she said during the intermission. "Never in all the years in this business have I slept on the day I was singing. I used to go to the movies...