Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with the myriad performances of his own works...
...launched myriad ships, Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos knew precisely what he wanted for the 55-mile watery commute from his island villa to his port city office in Piraeus. From British shipyards came the world's fastest 102-ft. yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked...
...hamstrung by Leopoldville's nightmarish political mess, which forces him to spend 80% of his budget on salaries for civil servants and the 25,000-man army, which is vastly overpaid ($180 base pay per month for privates) to keep it loyal. To retain the support of the myriad political factions, he has 41 men in his Cabinet, perhaps the world's biggest...
...Hercules, his destruction of the three-headed monster Geryones, and finally ends with the vision of Columbus-with alleluias of thanksgiving for the land he will soon discover. Completely tonal, full of color and exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping. Pang and Pong in flamenco...
Source of Stability. Once again, Franco had gone into action at the first sign that the myriad opposition groups might start operating in concert. Sighed a Spanish politician as the feeble move toward combined opposition was crushed: "In Spain, there are many little streams of politics. In other countries, they form into rivers. But here there are no rivers." For this reason alone, many Spanish