Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naval hero and himself a retired rear admiral. Salty-tongued Chet Nimitz, who served in the submarine service in World War II and later got his technical training as an executive at Texas Instruments, went to Perkin-Elmer as a vice president in 1961 because he wanted to be nearer the salt water. When the company's president resigned because of illness eight months ago, Nimitz took the helm...
...good espionage story should. In Looking Glass, the author is graduating from his genre, as he promised he would. Having had his say about espionage, a profession that does not transect the common lot, presumably Le Carré will henceforth apply his considerable competence to themes much nearer human experience-and much worthier of his own understanding...
...whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls in The Hague with the slogan "Claus 'raus!" (Claus...
...novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. The bestseller: Nissan's $1,566 Bluebird, named for "the bluebird of happiness" m the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Though these cars are rugged, functional and economical, they cannot compete in styling and roominess with most U.S. and European makes, which will be nearer to the Japanese prices when the tariffs are reduced...
...popular at the turn of the century. But once shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with...