Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imitating bagpipers and American jazz, with the occasional addition of native rhythms. To foreign ears the simple 4/4 tempo of pennywhistle jazz may seem repetitious and childlike. To Africans living in crowded city locations, pennywhistle jazz evokes nostalgic country memories: the swaying of women at tribal weddings, the sound of ancient work songs, the wail of funeral dirges...
...economist, Sylvia Porter is sound enough to command the respect of the business community; as historian, she has an instinct for the larger trends too often buried under reports of day-to-day news. She has a genius for translating a snarl of statistics into down-to-earth realities. Her favorite phrase: "What does it all mean...
...foresee anything twinkly in such summer-budget grist could always retire to the beach with their radios. But they would also have to remember that, when replacement time comes in TV, fall is not far behind. If they listened very keenly, they could even now hear a dominant, ominous sound of autumn-the greatest thunder of hoofbeats ever to rumble across the land...
They seem to share a capacity not only for poking fun at folly but also for turning passing sorrow inside out. Standing in for Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
...prayer a personal communion with a loving heavenly Father as
Christ described it to be, or is it just a series of thought vibrations
by which we correct the spiritual imbalance between man and his natural
environment?"