Word: pah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player's chest and sometimes goes pah-pah, to the large, economy-size B-flat bass (29 Ibs., 387 in.), which is often worn somewhat like a life preserver and mostly goes oompah. One thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...