Word: sound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...foreign aid. But Hays felt uneasy about his vote. On his weekend, he read up on the advantages of a long-range fund: e.g., a three-year authorization, in place of the usual one-year program, would be more efficient, less expensive and would encourage underdeveloped countries to undertake sound, well-planned projects...
...president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...
Khrushchev's proclaimed program had a gentle sound, as he sought to prove the unity and good intentions of Soviet leadership and to re-establish a firm international line instead of the wobbling and confused foreign policy Russia has recently exhibited. But the faggots of denunciation were being gathered, and the smell of flames...
Silverstein has been careful to elicit from the refined men in the play aptly elegant deportment and diction. They show a delightful preciosity by pronouncing with a pure s-sound instead of an sh-sound all such words as "appreciate," "profession," "politicians" and "demonstration." And even the word "exquisite" is correctly accented on the first syllable...
...Blankets. Author Kirst. tries doggedly to depict the mentality, talk and folkways of Americans, but except for an occasional phrase like "in the bag," the Americans sound totally Teutonic. But readers will find grim, retroactive amusement in Author Kirst's account of the hasty changes made in a German town as U.S. tanks approach: an old Nazi triumphantly reveals that his housekeeper is half Jewish; panicky Gauleiter and Kreis-leiter are sheltered in hospitals; a satisfactory "antifascist" working man is thrust into jail ("Wouldn't you like another blanket, Herr Freitag? Two more perhaps?") in the hope that...