Word: peste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began talking about his idea around the Johns Hopkins University faculty club, some members of the science departments were frankly dismayed. "Appear on a television show?" they cried when Poole approached them. "Certainly not." Most of them pleaded that they were too busy; others candidly damned television as a pest and a bore...
Pianist Artur Rubinstein conceded that piano playing could be a bore, particularly at parties where the hostess insists on "just an eensy-teensy bit. Oh, it's a pest. I will go to an affair and they will send some bewitching young thing to ask me to play and I'm a beast...
...earliest trials were held once a year in Newgate in a building which dated from 1190. Later, in 1550, when Newgate had become too pest-ridden for the judges' personal comfort, the first of three successive Old Baileys was built next door. The two institutions were to stand side by side, one funneling miserable wretches to the other, for more than 300 years...
Johnson grass, originally and recklessly introduced as a forage crop, is a pest in much of the South, especially in cane fields. Its perennial rootstocks can be clawed up through cultivation, but the pesky seeds keep blowing into cultivated fields from a distance...
Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...