Word: pah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio rig, and NBC will try the same gimmick...
...Oompah! Oom-pah!" muttered the tympanist as he lashed about in a semicircle, flailing out a solo on his five kettledrums. Then he took a cue from Conductor Howard Mitchell, launched a new flight that moved him to rumble out a profound "Ye-e-a-ah!" For all its appearance of a tribal dance the occasion was a regular concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The piece, entitled Concerto for Five Kettledrums and Orchestra, was an answer to a tympanist's dream: being liberated from his exile at the rear of the orchestra and placed out front...
...self-made, self-assured man born in a rural Luzon slum and schooled in law and economics at Manila's Santo Tomas University, Macapagal (pronounced Mah-cah-pah-gahl) showed himself to be more like Magsaysay than any other candidate in getting through to ordinary Filipino voters. Sweeping 46% of the vote in his upset victory, he emerged as an odds-on favorite for the presidency four years hence...
...rehearsal. "Hard to keep up," murmurs Dave as he fingers a tricky accompaniment figure. "Listen,'' he warns his combo. "If I'm going to play this, boy, I want you guys in on the beats you're playing as hard as you can play . . . umpeta-pah, umpeta-pah . . ." The bass man thumps out a sample, and Dave approves: "Yeah! Unh! Zam! I don't wanna hear 'Omm, chack-boom.' I want 'Unh! Unh! Unh! Unh!'" He gets the sounds he wants, and the trolley goes clanking...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...