Word: score
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem for Americans is how to make the second alternative more likely than the first, and the third more likely than the second. Almost certainly, in those ten years, some Americans will die fighting -perhaps a few score, possibly millions. Almost certainly, billions of dollars will be poured out. There will be no safe course-only choices between dangerous courses...
...next liberty taken by Mr. Woodworth was that of cutting the rich instrumental score of the original down to a meager violin, oboe, 'cello, horn, and piano continue. Although it would doubtless have been difficult to use a full-size orchestra on the Sanders stage, surely more could have been done with the situation than this feeble quintet, which was forced to play against more than 170 voices. As it was, the instrumentalists present were far from perfect in tone or even pitch, and their weakness undermined the total effect...
After six weeks of darting around in the dusty gloom of Briggs Cage, three score and ten assorted baseball and lacrosse players surged out onto soggy Soldiers Field yesterday and threw the ball around...
...concert's end, Czechs and Germans began applauding. After a while the Germans stopped; the Czechs went on clapping stolidly - not cheering, just beating their hands together as if they would never stop. The Germans looked baffled and angry. Finally, Conductor Vaclav Talich held up the score, kissed it and, with an expansive gesture, presented it to the audience. It was Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country}, a cycle of symphonic poems breathing Czech patriotism; its last section tells of a glorious Czech liberation...
Tony Lavelli of Yale took top scoring honors with a 12-game score of 236 and found a place on the coaches' first team. He, Walt Budko of Columbia, and Bob Gale of Cornell were unanimous selections of the seven coaches...