Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a short pause came the weekly "Free Play" period, which is in many ways the most interesting section on the program. Freed from the confines of an artificial, pre-arranged scheme of notes, the ringers are enabled to express themselves directly, each one following his natural and spontaneous whim, without the constraining necessity of noticing what his fellow-ringers are doing. The bells are without doubt an ideal medium for this kind of improvisation, providing an immediacy of response and variety of expression unsurpassable on any instrument. The popularity of these sections testify to the sensitivity and unerring rhythmic...
...that Congress would reduce the drain of crop-support programs. On foreign aid, the President wanted an increase in funds that was modest in terms of the need, e.g., a jump from $400 million to $700 million for the Development Loan Fund. Already the President had ordered a whole section of the message to be devoted to the national need to balance the budget as an essential element of U.S. and free world stability. And he got some support for his case from the news that the dollar was losing some of its appeal to European currencies following Europe...
...postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects of the long shutdown were still apparent in the first Sunday editions. With a Page One explanation, the Herald Tribune stuffed three-week-old magazine supplements into its Sunday paper, plus all three color comic sections readers had missed during the strike. The News, too, inserted a Christmasy magazine section two weeks out of date...
...seems, was an ardent abolitionist. It appears that he had these devices constructed for the Underground Railway. The trapdoor leads to a secret chamber at the end of which a laddered well descends to the basement. During the twenties this apparatus constituted great fun and games for freshmen and section men who used to climb up an down the shaft. Unfortunately, the passage was subsequently boarded up as a safety measure...
...reaction to the spending plans was less than enthusiastic. Some key Democrats challenged the space and missile financing as too small. Nor did Republican congressional leaders organize any cheering section as they marched out of a 2 1/2 hour conference with President Eisenhower...