Word: overquick
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...Soule seemed to fade in and out of the solo quartet and Gianguilo made some rather audible mistakes, failing in four different spots to sustain the end of his solo the full length of the note. The final movement suffered from the meek entry of the strings and an overquick temp. But the allegro assai redeemed the piece, with oboe, flute, and violin soloists maintaining a whispering rapport...
...same shivery feeling that accompanied the Chinese breakthrough of last November and the wholesale U.N. retreat that followed. But the situation this time was quite different. Largely as a result of General Ridgway's morale-boosting, the Eighth Army was no longer suffering from "bugout fever" (an overquick tendency to retreat in case of trouble). Instead of being strung out in vulnerable "pursuit formation," Ridgway had been advancing carefully, compactly, on constant guard against surprise attacks and flank threats. Moreover, when they struck in November, the Chinese were fresh, confident, unhurt. Now they had been weakened by allied...
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