Word: medium-weight
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...take mighty roles. If he wanted to, he could be singing Wotan in the Ring cycle all over the world. But Terfel has another quality: intelligence. He aims to conserve his voice for a long career, so for now it is Figaro and Leporello and a few comparably medium-weight roles. He also loves to sing lieder and other nonoperatic works. Conductor Claudio Abbado remembers the "beautiful vocal subtlety and understanding" that he brought to their recording of Schumann's difficult Faust...
They now almost always buy the medium-weight suit that serves for eight out of the twelve months...
...engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free of vibration. Scott-Atwater showed the first three-cylinder outboard, an in-line 60-h.p. model priced at $980. The first practical outboard diesel, which cuts the danger of fire, was exhibited by American M.A.R.C., a medium-weight (75-80 Ibs.), 7½-h.p. engine priced at about...
What would bring out the grain? Government analysts and traders who know the farmer best believed that the quickest solution would be higher ceiling prices for grain and light-to medium-weight hogs. But the Government had pledged that there would be no such lifts at the expense of the U.S. public...
...Washington, and Harry Truman caught a cold that frogged his throat at times. It did not cloud his affability or brake his brisk manner of disposing of business across his desk. Newsmen who jampacked his press conference noticed: 1) Harry Truman had switched from summerweight double-breasted to a medium-weight flannel double-breasted suit; 2) his work-to-be-done boxes were stacked high; 3) there was another box on his desk, filled with emerald green match folders. The President indicated the folders, remarked that he was not supposed to be looking. Deskside reporters grabbed the hint...