Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overlook some revolutionary developments in flute technique: 1) the range is now six-plus octaves: 2) there are four ways to produce sound besides the normal way-"air rush," "buzz," "hhh-ttt" and "pop"; 3) the mobility of the performer reveals new potentialities for "stereophonic glissando," antiphony between direct and reflected sound, etc. Such potentialities signify the emergence of a new musical humanism...
Died. Russell Westover, 79, cartoonist and onetime San Francisco Bulletin sports illustrator who in 1921 eyed the post-World War I rush of women into the working world and launched Tillie the Toiler, a chic, shapely but scatterbrained comic-strip steno who primly kept one up on the boss and the office boys until she was retired in 1959; of a heart attack; in San Rafael, Calif...
...since the MDC proposed a pumping station and a new dam near North Station. The existing dam has no pumps and operates on a gravity principle, which means that when tides are unusually high the dam cannot be opened to discharge excess river water for fear of a back-rush of salt water. During a heavy storm, when tides are high and the river is full, there is a chance that the Charles would overflow its banks in the M.I.T. Back Bay area...
...squalid Bidonvilles where thousands of Bedouins, attracted from the desert by the lure of the city, live in houses made of shipping crates and lift vans, vainly waiting for wealth to come to them. Meanwhile, the desert is slowly but inexorably encroaching on agricultural land abandoned in the rush to the cities, and Libya's precious agricultural production has dropped a staggering...
Munching hamburgers in an Atlanta Airport restaurant last December, Emory University Senior Remar ("Bubba") Sutton and the school's sophomore class president, Don Brunson, decided in a rush of anger that they were fed up with student protest against U.S. warfare in Viet Nam. They went back to Sutton's dorm, talked all through the night with four other students, by morning had drafted a set of purposes for a new organization-Affirmation: Viet Nam. They dedicated it to demonstrating that "the opinion of the majority cannot be obscured by the voice of the minority...