Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
...vote in his favor was seconded by [County Chairman] Joe Compton and carried by 13 t01 ... There was no walkout-no rump convention . . . Later that week, Compton, a longtime friend of Henry Zweifel's, received instructions to file a false return on that convention, naming a Taft slate of delegates and claiming a resolution had been passed endorsing Taft. When Compton was placed under oath before the state executive committee, he admitted that he had participated in the convention that endorsed Eisenhower, and he admitted that no other county conventions had been held, yet the state executive committee voted...
Last year the Republicans tried in vain to change the state primary laws. G.O.P. politicians figured that conventions would enable them to nominate better-balanced slates. Last week at Worcester, the Republicans tried an experiment. They held an unofficial nominating convention and picked a mixed slate which will get the party leaders' all-out support in the September primary for state offices. Its makeup: two Back Bay bluebloods, one Yankee businessman, two Jews, one Italian and one Irishwoman...
...sometimes at 1:30 at night, and drop in for unexpected inspections. He continues to supervise Luzerne County patronage, and often angers the regulars by handing jobs to defeated political enemies as consolation prizes. He always likes to play his cards close to the chest: he rarely announces a slate of candidates until the last possible minute of the last...
...five years, Louis worked on his code, translating every letter into the simplest possible cluster of dots. He also invented a special stylus and slate with which the blind could write, started working on a system of musical and mathematical notation. Meanwhile, tapping his way about "in the dark hours and crooked passages," he began teaching his method to his own pupils...