Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolboys ranged in ranks before the headmaster on Prize Day, the members sat, knowing perfectly well what was coming (it had been discussed in smoking rooms and pubs for weeks), but still eager to have the official word spoken. At last, in a lengthy statement uninterrupted by a single sound, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told them what they had all been waiting to hear: every member was to get a raise...
...Juan ranch in the piñon-studded hills north of the city as the location for an amphitheater. Crosby and associates constructed a stage shell with an up-sloping flying roof and forward-sweeping wings designed to kill the echo off the rocky hills. To reflect the sound, engineers sank a pool between the orchestra pit and the 480-seat amphitheater, making one of the handsomest operatic settings in the Western Hemisphere...
Slushy Beat. Criticism from the local inhabitants had died to a few back-terrace whispers (Sponsor Mrs. Louis Lorillard characterized the festival's early opponents as "not socially secure."). In fact the only really surprising sound at last week's festival came not from the familiar names but from a 28-piece band whose performers averaged only 14 years...
Finally, 400 miles south of Bermuda, Boston gave up, wearily turned about and headed for Swampscott. Then he sprawled for three days on his bunk, too sick to set a course. "I heard the awesome sound of whale spouts in the fog. I felt that I was going up and down into nothing...
Refunds for Readers. Better than 99% of the letters received by the bureau never make the headlines, but get individual confidential replies from Hubble's experts. Hubble himself specializes in "human" cases, i.e., those that sound like good newspaper copy, spends three or four days each week on the personal investigations that have made John Noble the Pictorial's best-known byline...