Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most preoccupied men around were a pair of non-Austrians: U.S. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger and a 6-ft., muscular Russian general, Nikolai Zakharov, chief of Khrushchev's bodyguard. They huddled with each other and with Austrian officials, making program and security arrangements. Little trouble is expected from the thousands of Hungarian and other Iron Curtain refugees. Those who have not already migrated are contentedly working in unemployment-free Vienna. Reinforcements moved in for the Marine guard at the U.S. embassy. In deference to Austrian neutrality, they took off their blouses and military caps while traveling...
...nominated it for first prize at "a Conservatory in Hell." Rediscovered in 1945, it proves no more shocking to modern ears than Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. A romantic but vigorous work, it gives little hint of Rachmaninoff's later rhapsodies. The Leningrad Philharmonic is properly muscular...
...operation for an old back injury. It was recommended by Dr. Janet Travell, who has since become Kennedy's personal White House physician. When questioned about the rocker's presence in the White House, Dr. Travell explained that it "provides gentle, constant exercise and helps prevent muscular fatigue."' She added that "a really good rocker is hard to find...
...sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and brave. Some regarded him as an unconscionable prig-"a robust flower of American muscular Christianity . . . the artistic boy scout," William Rothenstein called...
...doing her master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...