Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grad student then asked the detectives to accompany him back to the Harvard Trust Company to search for the note which had been thrown in a wastebasket. The detectives reluctantly agreed. They entered the other bank and sought the wastebasket in question. The crushed note was there, and the detectives freed a grateful Dillaway...
...Many historic events have centered around this site," the marker will note. "The settlement of Dallas began in 1841 when John Neely Bryan's log cabin was built near by. The first legislature of the new state of Texas created Dallas County in 1846 with Dallas as the 'Seat of Justice.' In 1855 a toll bridge crossed the channel of the Trinity River at the west end of this plaza. Years later the river channel was moved one-half mile westward and confined between flood-control levees. Dallas was incorporated as a town...
...that note, the 23rd Communist Party Congress moved into its second and concluding week. Some observers had expected it to be the watershed meeting of world Communism, where the Red Chinese would be read out of the party. Others had anticipated that it would mark a return to Stalinism. Instead, the 23rd was likely to pass into history as the Congress of Caution...
...first-time listener is ever fully prepared for the major poet who lives in a minor-sized body (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.). When he played Prokofiev's wildly percussive and majestically colorful Second Piano Concerto last week, even the critics were astounded to hear every note of the labyrinthine cadenza; most pianists usually cut it down to their size. After wading through the cadenza, it seemed hardly difficult at all for Ashkenazy to master the rest of the piece-lightening it with brilliant glissandos and surging sonorous chords, concluding with a sudden, speedy dash that seemed...
...shopkeepers and dockers kept more or less in step to the bombastic brass of The British Grenadiers. Three years later, when, statistically, they were all dead, they marched better, but sang less nobly. Yet Chapman's battalion had earned the right to its cynical gallantry. In an introductory note to the reissue of his 1933 classic documentary of World War I, Chapman marks the score: "At the Armistice in November 1918, just under eight hundred [in the battalion] had been killed in action, including thirty-two officers, which is in fact almost exactly the combat strength of an infantry...