Word: retarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Congress proposed a joint resolution to make a "full and complete investigation of all lobbying activities intended to influence, encourage, or retard legislation." Backed by the Democratic party, this step would presumably also carry the approval and support of the Justice Department and of President Truman, who sharply attacked lobbying activities in the Eightieth Congress during his campaign last summer...
...intense Dr. Blount, 48, was the hit of the convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer...
...mighty Piano Concerto No. 2. This time, at the end of the rehearsal, the Maestro had only one suggestion for "Volodya": Toscanini trotted to the piano, plunked out a passage while Soloist Horowitz, standing by and towering over him, listened carefully and respectfully. They agreed to leave out one retard...
...young Toscanini, Verdi found a conductor he could trust. Before a performance of Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Toscanini once called on him, told him that he felt a retard was needed in one passage of the Te Deum. When Verdi heard him play it, he patted him on the back, said: "Splendid! That is just how I heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini...
Molotov: "Another [U.S.] policy is to retard the rehabilitation of German industry. . . . This cannot go on much longer...