Word: mooings
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...took three radio sound men, a control-room engineer and five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies...
...searcher for compromises, he used such phrases as "meeting the Russians halfway," and assiduously courted the Indians as a vehicle for compromise. But he was also U.N.'s most spirited heckler of the Russians, made up fictitious Russian proverbs to confound Vishinsky at his own game ("The more moo, the less milk"), once commented on a repetitious Vishinsky tirade: "Dig that broken record." He entered the Cabinet for the first time as Defense Minister when Eden took over as Prime Minister, was there only eight months before becoming Foreign Secretary. At 51, he is the youngest of the Tory...
...venture in the horse-breeding business. It was not the first time that a French race horse had come to the end of a career on the chopping block. In a country where many people have developed a taste for steaks and stews that used to whinny instead of moo, prime horse cuts bring a dollar a pound at the boucheries chevalines - a tempting thought for racehorse breeders burdened by feed bills...
Lillian Briggs, 22, used to be a brunette truck driver. Now she is a blonde entertainer who earns adulatory shrieks and $500 a week with her voice and her trombone. Lillian likes that trombone. "Boy," she says, "it really can moo...
...like smoke. He begins to sing, hips down and shoulders hunched, hands shaping the big rhythms and eyes rolling with each low-down line. The musicians come to life, the wallbirds start to smile and weave with the very special sound that is Sinatra. Instead of the old adolescent moo, the Sinatra voice now has a jazzy undertone of roostering confidence, and a kind of jewel hardness that can take on blue and give off fire with subtlety and fascination...