Word: singes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing. Arthur Fry, 53, a 3M chemical engineer, used to get annoyed at how pieces of paper that marked his church hymnal always fell out when he stood up to sing. He knew that Spencer Silver, a * scientist at 3M, had accidentally discovered an adhesive that had very low sticking power. Normally that would be bad, but for Fry it was good. He figured that markers made with the adhesive might stick lightly to something and would come off easily. Since 3M allows employees to spend 15% of their office time on independent projects, he began working...
...result, institutional investors and market-advice newsletters found it hard to pick any fast-rising stocks. Said Barton Biggs, managing director of the Morgan Stanley investment firm: "We have been like rock stars, but the fun is over for a while now that the customers think we can't sing...
...sang the Ethiopian princess at La Scala in 1960, one Italian critic exclaimed: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal Aida." Her Met debut came in 1961, as Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore; that performance provoked a prolonged ovation for only the fifth black artist to sing a major role in the house since Marian Anderson broke the color line six years earlier. In such dramatic soprano roles as Tosca, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's other Leonora, in La Forza del Destino, Price established herself as a prima donna assoluta...
...wrote on her entrance application to a predominantly black college in Wilberforce, Ohio, "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success." In 1949 she won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, economically taught her to "sing on your vocal interest, not on the principal." In 1952 she was discovered by Composer Virgil Thomson, who cast her in his opera Four Saints in Three Acts. That led to her first popular triumph, as Bess in a revival of Porgy and Bess. A great career was launched...
MAMA I WANT TO SING. Amateur night in Harlem, or heaven (see story above...