Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was not a sound from the vast German crowd; even the cheerleaders were silent. At that moment only the flapping Red banners said anything about German-Soviet friendship...
Pointing specifically at the A.D.A., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council and U.A.W.-C.I.O. President Walter Reuther as those who ran first and fastest (TIME, Aug. 19), Mitchell traced the recent history of the civil rights bill: "The House sent President Eisenhower's sound civil rights bill to the Senate with its approval. The Senate then, in the words of Dr. Ralph Bunche, made the bill 'disappointingly weak' by crippling that provision which would ensure equal voting rights for all Americans . . . And then, before the House had a chance to make any move to put strength back...
President made his own "New Life Movement" sound like nothing so much as a South Seas version of Red China's "rectification" campaign. "Our nation, building itself anew, needs the support of a mental revolution," declared Sukarno. "Mentally we must be completely rejuvenated-washed clean...
...finally had to put a rug in the TV room because there were so many falls in that mad dash to lower the set as soon as the commercial came on. Maybe somewhere in the country there is a viewer who reacts to that sudden rush of sound by saying, 'Darling, do watch this, isn't it fantastic what that razor will do to the hidden beard?' Maybe . . . but if they have to get up and lower the volume, someone in the room is going to say, 'Listen, while you're on your feet...
...form, the book follows the cycle of the year, and Jiménez is at his best when he evokes the look, the sound, the colors of each passing season. Before he finishes, he has sketched for Platero and the reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...