Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith in us." Last week the State Department put out a tape-recorded transcript (see Foreign Relations) that proved again and unforgettably that Communists give words a special meaning of their own. The Kremlin had denied that the C-130 had been shot down. But the transcript was the sound of Soviet jet pilots gabbing excitedly to each other by radio as they shot down that same unarmed...
Aboard the tug H. Thomas Teti Jr. on the choppy mist-veiled East River below, Co-Captains Samuel Nickerson and Everett Phelps suddenly heard a sound across the water like "dynamite going off." They flipped the wheelhouse searchlight on, saw, 800 ft. off the tug's bow, the shattered hulk of Flagship New York settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight...
Another non-science Faculty member, Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, concurred wholeheartedly with the report, terming it "a very sound and sensible job." He noted that a stronger program would increase the enticements of natural science as a career...
...dancing to produce dazzling splashes of color. The other sections naturally act as relief; these generally take the form of lyrical African love songs, of calypso duets with guitars, hardly distinguishable from their Caribbean counterparts. The most interesting of these quiet interludes involves an African lute of liquid sound and astonishing facility called a "cora." The two cora soloists are undoubtedly virtuosos, and they draw from their instruments a phenomenal number of notes during their brief performances...
...strictures, Fromm sees Freud as "a truly great man." He concedes that "Western thought is impregnated with Freud's discoveries, and its future is unthinkable without the fruits of this impregnation." The trick is to cull the rotten fruit from the sound apples...