Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential to U.S. security. Said Dulles: "We decided that we could not, in fairness to our responsibilities and our duties to the American people, perhaps to humanity, desist in a program which we believe to be sound merely for propaganda purposes...
...Japanese "lowteen" girls in braids, pony tails, hula shirts, black slacks and white sweaters celebrated in their own way: jamming Tokyo's Kyoritsu Theater to swoon and scream at the pelvic pulsations of guitar-twanging "rockabilly" idols. Said a dazed stagehand last week, trying to describe the massed sound of their screams: "Like an auto suddenly braked at 100 m.p.h...
...performed last week, the 15-minute concerto (built around a simple theme from the old hymn He Leadeth Me!) proved to be an engaging and often witty piece, full of surprising melodic invention. It had a finely calculated balance of sound throughout, was notable for a mellow duet of drums and cellos in the second movement, and a satirical statement of the theme by four drums and orchestra in the third movement. Because Composer Parris used comparatively little bass, the music in certain spots gave the impression of a billowing cloud of strings floating aimlessly over the deep thunder...
...clicked while the jury returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree. But 60 miles away in Lincoln, State Attorney General Clarence S. Beck watched a TV film of the scene and exploded ("There was the clerk of the court reading the verdict-live with sound, yet"). Last week Attorney General Beck charged before the Nebraska Supreme Court that
...more than bravery. It is heroism." From prison he wrote a poem to his aunt ("Birdie, angel bright and fair. So sweet of face and white of hair"), and when he tells of Loeb's murder by a fellow convict, Leopold writes solemnly: "Strange as it may sound, he had been my best...