Word: pluckings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime, as in other business endeavors, it is imagination, pluck and thinking in big terms that spell success. This is the American way, and it is right. But in a system of free enterprise there should always be room at the bottom for the little fellow who is neither mentally nor morally fit to compete with the big boys. And on behalf of the tin-horn punk, friends of small business look with uneasiness upon recent developments in the world of crime...
...retrospective concert of his music. To mid-century ears, Cowell's once-daring innovations sounded misty and soothing. His forearm "tone clusters'' (in Trumpet of Angus Og and Deep Tides) aroused no indignant gasps. When he reached into the vitals of the piano to stroke and pluck the strings (in How Old Is Song), the effect was gently harplike. One movement of his Violin Sonata sounded rather like a Danny Boy whose melody had been opened out like the parts of a dismantled Swiss watch. The Cowell impact was both easy and light...
...trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...when a general persisted in arguing an issue which Kyes considered closed, "Jolly Roger" reached out and flicked the four stars on the officer's shoulder straps with his fingertips. "Look," he said, "I didn't come down here to shovel snow. I came down here to pluck stars...
Since the Palestine "armistice" of April 3, 1949, the almost ritualistic routine of daily raiding and killing has provided full-time work for peacemakers of the U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission. Refugee Arabs raid across the border to pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or some lengths of irrigation pipe from the Israeli side. The Israelis raid back in force to shoot up the Arabs. Local commanders sometimes smooth over incidents; other times the MAC has to move in for an investigation, then fitful peace returns...