Word: oak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carillon technique requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the broad keyboard confronts him like a firing squad's rifles. Each carillon is unique, and because the 12-ton, E-flat bourdon bell in the Washington carillon is heavier and therefore deeper in pitch than its counterpart in Kansas, Barnes must rescore all his music a major third higher...
BANG! The door is three inches thick and made of solid oak, but it shudders as if cannonballs were bounding off the other side. The young woman screams. No need. The door holds, the banging stops. Huge footsteps die into the distance. Silence. The young woman falls back on the bed and sobs with relief. "It's gone! It's gone!" Her eyes close weakly. When she opens them she sees that slowly, ever so slowly, the big brass knob on the d-d-d-door is t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-turning...
...William L. Russell of Oak Ridge had some unhappy news for the atom-age world. He presented impressive evidence that a dose of radiation stretched over a long period produces more mutation in mammals than the same dose concentrated in a short period. Since nearly all mutations are harmful to unborn generations, this finding makes even moderate amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout seem like a serious threat to man's future...
...white I'M FOR WALLY signs began to circulate outside the oak-paneled Atlanta courtroom, where former University of Georgia Football Coach Wally Butts's $10 million libel suit against the Saturday Evening Post was in its second week of testimony. Whether the Georgia football fans in the jury box agreed with the Georgia football fans waving the signs, would only come clear with this week's verdict.But witness after witness had already handed down an unofficial decision. For the manner in which it put together last spring's "The Story of a College Football...
...swimming is like Big Ten football, the best; and Indiana University's swimming team is the best in the Big Ten. Last week at Oak Park, Ill., the Hoosiers showed how good they are by winning the A.A.U. National Outdoor championship for the sixth year in a row, scoring more than twice as many team points as the nearest competitor...