Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swayed. In Bury St. Edmunds, England, when only eleven jurors filed out. of the box at West Suffolk quarter sessions court, Judge Gerald Howard took another look, spotted the twelfth juror sound asleep...
...Minuteman. The Administration had wanted $260 million for a steam-powered aircraft carrier, but Congress said no, instead put up $35 million to cover advance planning on a nuclear-attack aircraft carrier. It added $137 million for the Navy's undernourished antisubmarine-warfare program. One congressional lapse from sound strategic planning: an added $73 million to keep the politically-powerful National Guard at 400,000 men instead of at the Administration's recommended level...
...equally cautious remarks. "It is not the greatest thing since beer," said one; and an M.I.T. researcher pointed out that "obvious countermeasures [radio jamming] could be used against it." But the Defense Department's careful-going Research Director Herbert York concedes that "the ionospheric backscatter principle is a sound one." Give him a year. Thaler predicted, and he hoped he could go to the Defense Department and say: "Here we have a system. Go ahead with the hardware...
...first album, Sing Along with Mitch, was a rousing bestseller when it came out 15 months ago. The 28 choristers, picked from a local aviary of singing commercialists, managed to sound like so many lonesome Kiwanians mooning by the banks of the Budweiser. The words were easy to understand-for good measure, they were printed on the jacket-and the repertory never got far from the old millstream. By last week, Columbia and Conductor Miller had issued five more albums, and the sing-along series had sold an astounding 1,750,000 copies...
...Count of Monte Cristo) knows just where the millions lie: in fictionalized history, resplendently costumed, sexed up, and heavily flavored with religion. There are sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod Antipas, "You thrill my inmost being." There is also the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by an offstage voice in soft-sell tones. There are stabbings, hurricanes, ambushes, chases, the miracles of Christ, racial conflict between Arabs and Jews...