Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost its old meaning, the best definition of "more" might well be "enough," as long as inflation continues. A "more" born of inflation is an illusion and-for the moment at least-an "enough" could be regarded as more than enough if it contributed to a sound and steady dollar and normal, healthy economic development...
...vital and farseeing change from past policy, had asked authority to spread $2 billion in repayable loans to underdeveloped countries over a three-year period. This departure from year-to-year development programing would be more efficient, less expensive, and would encourage underdeveloped nations to set up sound, well-planned projects...
...sort of personal gilly for his neat bag of vaudevillian's tricks. This spring, between performances, he made flying trips cross-country to play the leading comedy role in the Metropolitan Opera's Gilbert-and-Sullivanish souffle, La Périchole, which he also staged. "I sound like a sick walrus when I'm in good voice," he says. Within a matter of months he also bested Mike Wallace on Night Beat, played the bean peddler in TV's Jack and the Beanstalk, made some records with Bea Lillie, played all the parts in a recording...
...ship had no phonographic recorder, so Worthington noted carefully the exact intonations of the noises of that and subsequent eavesdroppings on the whales. Two later voyages with a tape recorder confirmed his memory. "First there was a loud, strong sound," he said last week at Woods Hole, "then this clicking noise. Click. Click. Click. Over and over. I counted 70 in a row. They came as fast as five to a second...
Concluded Worthington: "The third sound came like a creaking noise, like some great door slowly and ominously swinging open. The kind of sound effect Alfred Hitchcock makes...