Word: rip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carter Barren Amphitheater. Its five movements describe 1) The River, with quickened tempo as it surges past Bear Mountain, and broad majesty as it reaches the Palisades; 2) Hendrick Hudson, the intrepid explorer, portrayed in horns and woodwinds and thundering percussion, often wistful because of his tragic end; 3) Rip Van Winkle, a clever description of the Washington Irving tale, in which Rip whistles for his dog (which answers "Woof! Woof!"), watches the dwarfs play at ninepins, has a couple of drinks while the bassoons rollick, sleeps it off and then calls for his dog (no "Woof"); 4) The Albany...
...inaudible to the untrained ear. But last week's Assembly in Westminster's Church House was different. The Social and Industrial Council's report strongly criticizing Moral Re-Armament (TIME, Feb. 14) was coming up, and for days M.R.A. literature and letters had made a rip tide across the desks and breakfast tables of churchmen and editors...
...Lion. If Scott drew on his tradition, his greatest disciple created the most popular works in igth Century French literature by sheer personal exuberance. The son of an illegitimate mulatto general from Santo Domingo, Dumas crashed the august Comédie Française with a rip-roaring historical drama, Henri III and His Court, and became the kinky-maned lion of Paris...
Within the framework of the tactical-deterrent concept, how will the wars of tomorrow be fought? How will the tactical claw be used to rip the enemy? As of now, there can be no hard and fast answers, and experiments must be secret...
Douglas continued his practice of not referring to Joe Meek by name; instead, he calls his opponent "the Republican Rip van Winkle who has slept 20 years in Lobbyland," and "a man who was dragged screaming into the 20th century...