Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four years was put out of office. The Social Christians (largely Roman Catholics) captured a majority of the Senate but fell short in the House, and may not be able to put together a majority, though King Baudouin asked Social Christian August De Schryver, 60, to make a sounding. Probable result: Belgium will struggle along until everybody goes home from the Brussels Fair and then vote again. EURJ In Portugal the election was certain by its nature to be a landslide without any annoying democratic uncertainties. The winning presidential candidate was Dictator Antóonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...school any more. Instead, he hangs around on street corners tootling a pennywhistle. Lemmie leads his own celebrated band, the "Alexandra Junior Bright Boys," which started out playing for coppers, by now has made three hit records and gets featured billing at Johannesburg City Hall concerts. Reason: the haunting sound of pennywhistle jazz has become the favorite music of South Africa's slum-caged blacks-and of a great many white hipsters...
...fast that record companies have ordered a half dozen new pennywhistle tunes. Princess Margaret herself has cut some kwela steps. Pennywhistle records will soon liven U.S. jukeboxes; American jazzmen (including Clarinetist Tony Scott, Saxophonist Bud Shank, Pianist Claude Williamson) went to Johannesburg to learn and record the new sound...
Willi Heinrich is a 37-year-old German novelist whose specialty is the look, smell and sound of military defeat. He came by his competence honestly and bitterly as an infantry soldier in a fearfully mauled German division that bit deep into Russia, withdrew its remnants in broken retreat. Five wounds, Heinrich's personal quota, do not necessarily make a war novelist, but his first book, The Cross of Iron (TIME, April 23, 1956), proved that no contemporary novelist was better than he at the grisly business of describing the meat grinder of infantry combat. Crack of Doom, another...
...such candid appraisal of his needy alma mater by this lone survivor, the College's intercontinental radio commercial--the feature event of Harvard's Day--won almost universal acclaim from those who are supposed to know. Variety, the show business journal, though that the broadcast "made the Harvard eggheads sound as provocative as peelers...