Word: obbligato
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...installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...
...heard nothing of him until 1941. Then, to an obbligato of fifes and clopping hoofs, the Berlin radio introduced him to its U.S. audience as "Paul Revere." During four years of war, Chandler's cultivated American voice spewed forth the propaganda line of Joseph Goebbels. He was known as America's Lord Haw-Haw. He was captured in 1945, brought home to stand trial...
...Duchess of Bedford House the squatters marched in solemn ceremony, singing lustily to the obbligato of a small band headed by a Scottish bagpiper.* Then they were whisked away in buses furnished by the British Communist Party, which had decided to move them into an East End rest center maintained by the Government for building workers. But the building workers made a sad show of proletarian solidarity. With a cry of "Stand by your homes, lads," squads of threatened residents raced through the rest home, locking dormitory doors and posting guards...
...torrid heat made closing the doors unthinkable. Then nearby British artillery opened fire, presumably against Indonesian guerrillas. Sir Archibald, seasoned diplomat though he was, gave up, with a shrug of his shoulders. "I can't compete with this," said he. General Mansergh, not realizing that the thunderous obbligato was being played by his own guns, bellowed: "The Ambassador can't compete with the Almighty-rain and thunder...
Koussevitzky's current ambition: to commission a symphony with a contralto obbligato part for her, so that she can tour with the orchestra...