Word: sixteen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this Freudian potpourri a father in love with snails, and scores of definitely unattractive adolescents in heavy shoes and long dresses showing figures at their worst, and you have "sweet sixteen, youth smiling through its tears"--while the onlooker bites his fingernails in depressed frustration...
...true that the Negro melodies are almost childlike in their simplicity of structure, Consisting in most cases of an eight, twelve, or sixteen bar strain whose exact time and beat division depends upon the words to which it is fitted, the tunes receive full harmonic treatment only in the hands of arrangers. But obviously enough, every theme is simple until it has been subjected to the variation and development of which only highly trained musicians are capable. The principal musical ideas of the world's greatest composers, from Bach to Strawinsky, in their original form might well be and often...
...Sixteen other German barges were still held, with five Hungarian ones, two belonging to Socony-Vacuum. The Yugoslav permits are a new clog in Germany's supply line wherein the fine hand of British diplomacy may or may not be seen. Should Germany decide to impose her own control of through traffic on the Danube, fireworks might well follow in the Balkans...
...Sixteen members of Coach Floyd Stahl's varsity baseball team will leave Boston on Sunday for the annual spring trek through the South, opening the current playing season at Chapel Hill on Monday against the University of North Carolina, it was announced today...
...Captain Tom Healey, ace pitcher, the sixteen-member squad includes Charlie Brackett, Burgy Ayres, Lou Clay, and Jack Schwede, pitchers; Bob Fulton, Fred Keyes, Bill Tully, Ed Buckley, Jim Lynch, and Sam Merrill, infielders; Torby Macdonald, Al Pitchford, and Gene Lovett, outfielders; Charley Spreyer and Bob Regan catchers...