Word: messe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average for an organ recital. Biggs chose to end with the celebrated Bach Toccata and Fugue in D-minor, which he has played thousands of times. Evidently he thought he knew it so well that it needed no advance brushing-up. The result was, to put it bluntly, a mess...
...happens all too frequently, those who approved did not phone. With the field left to themselves, the complainants gave network program directors a discouraging view of the audience they strive to please. "We just plain don't care to hear or read about the mess," wrote a Texan to NBC. Added a CBS fan: "What good does it do to make so many of us give up the only pleasures we have-our daily TV programs? Besides, it creates unrest and worry to thousands...
...grown up as the adopted son of a Delaware Indian chief. On hand to make sure the boy minds his rail-splitting is a right friendly Army scout (Fess Parker). Actor MacArthur, who is built like a fireplug and is not much more expressive, sets out to make a mess of Fess. He swings at him with a rifle butt, wrestles with him in the muddy Ohio River. But sure 'nuff, he ends up back at the ranch, gloomily sitting in an old metal tub muttering, "Indian no stink, white man stink...
Brazil is a case in point. Brazil got into a fiscal mess with inflationary policies, and did little to reform because officials thought they could always count on the U.S. Export-Import Bank for loans. Eventually, after 63 authorized loans totaling $656 million, Brazil had to go to the Monetary Fund. There a coolly competent professional international staff delivered a stern lecture, exacted a promise of reform, gave a small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl...
...every dollar they manage to save under the contract price of an item. But no sooner is the incentive payment dispensed than it can be demanded back as excessive profit. As Boeing's Allen says: "By all odds the most unenlightened aspect of the whole renegotiation mess is that it ignores how good a job you're doing-how many dollars per pound you're saving the Government by beating cost figures." In seven years of producing B-47 and B-52 jet bombers and KC-97 tankers, Boeing saved $131.5 million on their anticipated prices...