Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gesture. The records, said Tucker, "are as vital to the operation as machines along the production line. Tying up such records will make it impossible to continue operating." He laid off 1,100 workers, closed down the plant until the investigation was over. For once Tucker permitted himself a note of pessimism. If the plant remained closed for more than 60 days, he said, the "project . . . might collapse...
...persuasive powers of poetry got thumping recognition from Robinson Jeffers' publisher. Next month Jeffers' new book of verse would contain a cautious note-to-the-reader: "Random House feels compelled to go on the record with its disagreement over some of the political views expressed in this volume...
...Without the usual polite little note of farewell, President Truman dropped Dr. Thomas Parran from his job as: 1. White House physician. 2. Army Surgeon General. 3. Navy Surgeon General. 4. U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General. 5. Medical advisor for Indian reservations...
...none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists of their bodies seemed to spring from inner drunkenness rather than...
...False Notes. Erica is interested in other things too: her jeweler-husband, her cooking. But ever since she used to hide in her father's classroom in Vienna as a tot of three and cry "false" when a student struck a sour note, music has always come first. Now a confirmed classicist, she says that contemporary music "is not music for me-I like to play a tune...