Word: looming
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Last May FCC decided that Frequency Modulation was sufficiently advanced to warrant its undertaking commercial operation. Freed from the confines of experiment, staticless FM began to loom formidably on radio's horizon. But while some operators were struggling to transform their experimental stations into high-powered outfits for commercial use, the national-defense program suddenly slowed down delivery of equipment. Last week FCC did right by FM once again, announced that it would permit experimental FM units to operate commercially (provided they had received commercial construction permits) until big-league transmitters are delivered...
...manner possible. Both external affairs and internal relations will be subjected to the very severest strain, and will test to the limit our capacity for readjustment to the realities of the modern struggle for life. Among the ways and means of survival in this fateful hour, administrative management will loom large-if not the largest single factor in the death grapple we now face. What we encounter is not just another "interesting, problem" but a bloody clash with grim reality. What we are swiftly approaching-are now actually in-is a now era in national and world affairs. This...
Shakespearean Directrix Margaret Webster who also did Evans's Richard II, Hamlet and Henry IV, Part I, has done her usual best by the Bard. Stewart Chancy has designed Italianate landscapes that loom softly behind the players. Paul Bowles, among the up-&-coming young American composers, has written lingering music for Shakespeare's songs, celebrating love and death with flute, oboe, harp, harpsichord, percussion and muted trumpet. The Bard, in his latest Broadway manifestation, has got all the breaks a playwright could wish. The audience's rewards are less solid...
...places, especially in showing how the mathematics of infinity developed, and in explaining the calculus, Mathematics and the Imagination plows through heavy seas, and formidable equations loom like reefs and icebergs. But the book is studded with titillating mathematical believe-it-or-nots, puzzles and paradoxes that have bemused men through the ages...
...long as Mexico has had elections it has had pistoleros ("gunmen"). These bravos are sometimes paid, and sometimes just appoint themselves, to "support" respective candidates for office. During political off-seasons they keep in training by provoking purely private, local brawls, but let a close election loom and they emerge in force to strut around bars, clank their spurs haughtily and utter elegant insults at other candidates' pistoleros. Some pistoleros have strong political ideals. A lot of them get their bravado from tequila...