Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sometimes snapping his fingers to indicate rhythm. His few comments are deceptively simple. "Intonation," he murmurs, or, "That's it, that's it." When something goes wrong, he raises an eyebrow; the music stops cold. Then he picks up his 1680 Nicola Amati violin and, filling the room with a full, rich tone, shows how the passage should sound. "Mark that," he says...
...women who have received heart transplants and apparently beaten the prevailing fifty-fifty odds of survival, all the technical questions are of little concern. Blaiberg drives his car, drinks his beer, eats heartily and writes his autobiography. In Paris, Père Boulogne uses his hospital room, after seven months, to celebrate his private Mass and work on his book on St. Thomas Aquinas. DeBakey's patient, William C. Carroll, plays pitch-and-putt golf in Arizona. A Shumway patient, Mrs. Virginia Asche, is at home and doing her own housework three months after the transplant...
Though they tried mightily to mix it up with the big boys in the National Basketball Association last season, the newly franchisee! San Diego Rockets seemed more like Romper Room rejects playing ring-around-a-rosy. They lost 32 of their final 33 games and finished with a 15-67 record. No matter. By virtue of their low standing, the Rockets got first draft choice from the college crop...
...their practice sessions at a natural-birth clinic and their visits to in-laws (Mom still wishes Bruce had gone into dentistry). A listener can even hear the chatter of Debbie's teeth as she is driven to the hospital. Finally, with Bruce exhorting her in the delivery room ("Push, push, push") and Debbie's face twisted, she gives birth to a boy in full view of the camera. "Oh, my God," he mutters...
...underground area will take "a minor portion" of the $2 million total involved in the Bertram-Eliot project, Mrs. Bunting said. The center building and the renovation work--which includes converting individual rooms into three-to-six room suites--will use up the rest of the money...