Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation have chosen their path, the duty of the military is fixed once and for all." In the sternest rebuke he has ever addressed to the army, General de Gaulle warned: "Outside this duty, there are and can be only doomed soldiers." He concluded: "I ask you all to sing with one voice the Marseillaise.'' Dozens of officers stood stonily silent...
...indeed a trying period--she still seems tense over it. Unfortunately, she assumes that her life here was typical, and that is doubtful indeed. Most 'Cliffies are not morally bullied by dead Puritan ghosts. Few girls I know make "turgid references" to the "totality of experience," nor do many sing themselves "to near collapse" over Bach. Radcliffe is not a four-year trauma for everybody, nor, as Miss Sayres claims, do "even the gentlest girls have turbulent private lives...
...defense, although he did allow himself a Cagney-like snarl at a haggle of assistant district attorneys. "Ya dirty rats!" he observed. The jury quickly found Gallo guilty of attempted extortion and conspiracy. The finding, his first major conviction, could get Gallo up to 14½ years in Sing Sing when he is sentenced next month...
...Verdi, Di quella pira ("From that pyre"), from the third act of Il Trovatore, had not a single high C in it, but Tenor Enrico Tamberlik (1820-89) started inserting one in the middle and one at the end-and they have been there ever since. The 40 tenors sing in six languages, and generally bleat, screech, bawl and scream in a manner calculated to make any listener sympathize with Rossini's request that a visiting tenor "check his high C with his overcoat...
Oppenheimer said last night that at no time Oct. 30 was a written order presented, and that one reason given for closing the Club was "to get rid of picketers by getting rid of the cause." (The first "Sing Out for SANE," on Oct. 23, attracted a large crowd and several picketers. It is reliably reported that films of the evening's activities taken by WBZ-TV were turned over...