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Having a substitute drummer didn't at all detract from the performance the band gave: guitarist Todd Mund evoked a sonic spectrum ranging from airy melody lines to bone-crunching chords with his red Les Paul; bassist Nedich aggressively propelled many of the tunes with unrelentingly rhythmic bass lines; and Deal leavened the raw power of her vocals with sensitivity. Her muscular voice never strained, and she displayed impressive range and intonation. At times she could be sweet and velvety. Then she would let loose from the diaphragm and sing a chorus with no mercy. Such was the case with...

Author: By John T. Reuland, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The New Deal: From Riches to Rags | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

...much bluer the Danube is on their side of the Iron Curtain. Making the most of their fears, Klaus's campaign posters thunder about "the proof in black and white of the Red Volksfront menace." For good measure, some campaign managers have spread the news by Mund'funk (word of mouth) that the two Red parties are planning a putsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: The Red & the Black | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

From high in the Himalayas, a runner brought eight-day-old word that Sir Ed mund Hillary, 34, who one year ago reached the top of Mount Everest with Sherpa Guide Tenzing Norkey, was bat tling an unexpected threat to his life on another peak. After breaking a rib while rescuing a climbing companion on lofty (23,800 ft.) Mount Baruntse, Hillary fell ill with pneumonia. Aided by oxygen and penicillin sent from a nearby U.S. expedition, he was presumably being carried down from the 22,500-ft. heights of a glacier by fellow mountaineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 7, 1954 | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked words and phrases the original meaning of which had been believed lost beyond recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: NEW BRUNSWICK: Wiwilamehkw's Horns | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...English, in three they under stood it but answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA: Under Der Union Jack | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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