Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time out, Freedom's People undertook to reveal the origins of Negro spirituals, ballads and blues, demonstrate their influence on American music. Paced by towering Paul Robeson, who sang Many Thousands Gone and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, the cast included famed Ballad Singer Joshua White, Jazzman Noble Sissle & orchestra, Blues Composer W. C. Handy. The show did right by Negro music and its development. In the future it also intends to do right by Negro science, literature, sport, religion. Scheduled to go on the air about once a month for the next half-year Freedom's People...
...listener a rare chance to hear some of the best recorded performances in the jazz idiom and tradition. And if after a few of these recitals he finds himself sensing the unaffected exuberance of a fast Johnny Hodges solo, and the spirit and stimulation of the music begins to reveal itself, he can be assured that his musical taste is improving--no mistake...
Many of the recordings made so far reveal that the most over-worked word in the Yardling vocabulary is "uh" or "ah", and that the most common sentence construction is a long, awkward pause. Difficulties such as these will be attacked by Professor Packard and his staff after they have been exposed to the light by the voice recordings...
Senator Francis T. Maloney's committee, picking up the shells one at a time, seemed to reveal no pea at all. After listening to eleven days of testimony, it reported flatly that there was no shortage: the railroads could provide 20,000 now idle tank cars to transport 200,000 bbl. a day, more than enough to make up for the diversion of tankers. It recommended that Ickes drop his filling-station curfew, his 10% cut in deliveries to distributors, above all his shrieks and alarms. Said the committee, giving Honest Harold the lumps: "... Had an adequate analysis been...
...inventories of scarce materials than they admitted. (They had enough to turn out 45,600 units last fortnight, more than twice the output in the corresponding 1940 week.) There was also a faint hope that OPM's new plans for getting real figures on short metals inventories might reveal large excess supplies (in the hands of farsighted manufacturers)* that could be reallocated...