Word: mellower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tacho Somoza was in a mellow mood. He was not really complaining-just thinking out loud and airing a few mild gripes. One of them was about the U.S. Unswerving in his love for the U.S. (he worked and studied in Philadelphia from 1912 to 1919), he could not understand why his affection was not more warmly reciprocated. "The U.S. takes its best friends for granted," he said. "You won't even give us arms, and yet you pour billions into European countries which don't appreciate your generosity. What advantage do we get from being friendly...
...dean was sensitive about his age. But his ability greatly impressed senior professors in the school, and they quickly helped him hurdle the gap in his formal education. Now a mellow 37, Keppel is recognized as an authority in his field...
James Harkless sang his group of English and Italian art songs with simplicity and fluency. His mellow, relaxed style, however, seemed fitting only in "The Willow Song" and in Salvator Rosa's "Star Vincino." The rest quickly became cloying...
...hectic weekend quietly closes. Of a Sunday afternoon--between Saturday's passes and Monday's exams--couples forsake the falling November leaves for a secluded nook. They leave the pale autumn light outside, expecting warm fires and mellow wine...
...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...