Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders of Prague's short-lived Springtime of Freedom have long since been silenced. Alexander Dubček is variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...
...music sounds like nobody else's: short, choppy phrases, thorny melodies that blossom abruptly and are suddenly plucked away, trumpets and trombones that whoop with glee, orchestration that seems all top and bottom with a yawning gap in between...
Noise, of course, is everywhere. With all appliances roaring, a modern kitchen can generate louder noise than a factory; both exceed the volume that most experts believe will impair hearing. In some offices, the constant staccato of typewriters and calculators is so nerve-racking that employees quit after a short time on the job. (New York's First National City Bank neatly resolved that problem by hiring deaf clerical help in its check-processing department.) City streets, already filled with roaring trucks and buses, are made intolerable by the added din of construction. Even when people sleep, they hear...
...paper, the basketball game between Harvard and St. John's University tonight in New York looks like a David-and-Golfath proposition. And Harvard holds the short end of the stick...
...squads presented contrasting styles at a meeting this afternoon. Keough's team had just filed off the plane in matching blue blazers, short haircuts, and a general air of All-Americanness...