Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying his priceless Stradivarius cello* over his head like a toy. strapping (6 ft. 3½ in.) Virtuoso Gregor Piatigorsky threaded his way through the string section of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony one evening last week, settled himself into the soloist's chair by the podium and launched into a Cello Concerto newly written for him by his old friend Sir William Walton. If the piece itself seemed to ramble like a sun-warmed cow through sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands...
...deep grooves built into the hull near the ship's stern (see diagram). They converge toward the propeller, and when the ship is in motion, the propeller sucks streams of water from both grooves. As the streams move together, they exert pressure on the wedge-shaped section of hull between them and "pinch" it forward, rather as a watermelon seed is pinched from between two fingers...
Instead, charged independent Laos, the Communists have in effect demanded that the free section of the country move into the Communist orbit as the price of integration. For example, the Reds want the independents to accept aid and technical advice from the Chinese Communists and to create a coalition government in which the Communists would get such posts as minister of interior and defense. Moreover, the Communists have been attacking the government's outlying posts, apparently to create pressure for acceptance of their conditions...
Philanthropist Peter Bent Brigham died in 1877; it took longer than he had foreseen to get the hospital started in the Roxbury section, but in 1913 it opened its doors to Boston's indigents and thanks to a tie-in with Harvard Medical School, immediately began to make medical history...
This development has been fostered under section of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, intended to prevent the secrecy which it has shielded. Executive departments have misused two loopholes in the statute in much the same way that tax evaders withhold information on their earnings...