Word: organ
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...hour later, I'm sitting on the pavement, and I've seen a parade of sick, disabled, and blind young and old, being wheeled or prodded towards the grotto to receive their blessing. Hearing poignant organ music in the background and operating on little sleep, I have been robbed of self-control; my sobs come in big hiccuping gulps that I hide as best I can beneath my sunglasses...
DIED. THOMAS KLESTIL, 71, Austrian President; of multiple organ failure, two days before his second six-year term was to end; in Vienna. While in office, he spoke out against Austria's Nazi complicity during World War II and expressed sympathy for Holocaust victims during a trip to Israel, helping improve bilateral relations after revelations that his predecessor, Kurt Waldheim, had served in the Nazi military...
...greatest symphony ever composed, but it's surely the loudest: at its premiere in Munich in 1910, the impresario called it with Barnumesque flair the "Symphony of a Thousand" to convey the immense scale of the work, which requires a double orchestra, a pipe organ, three large choirs and eight vocal soloists. At a performance of the piece last month by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the forces were just shy of 500, more than enough to achieve the sense of grandeur that Mahler envisioned. In the finale, when the massed musicians joined in a mighty fortissimo, and the organist literally...
...foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty in Waltham, Mass. "It doesn't know anything about quality. It knows only when it's full...
After hitting the ground, the nymphs munch on grass roots and then tunnel down about 12 in. (30 cm) to feed on tree sap by attaching a strawlike organ to the roots. There the wingless bugs stay--for 17 years...