Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launcher as its engines built thrust. It lifted in grandeur in the morning sun, trailing a white-hot fire that looked like an inverted candle flame. Seconds after lifting-first slowly, then ever faster-Vanguard's farewell roar reverberated over the Cape in a blanket of sound. Half a mile from the pad, Canaveral men cheered: "Go, baby, go! Keep going, baby! Don't quit, baby...
Despite the somewhat ignominious departure maneuver, which promises to become habitual, Nasser lost no time in seeking out a rostrum in Cairo to sound the new glories of the U.A.R. and its leader. In Cairo's Republic Square he thundered: "Always the Arab peoples were able to conquer invaders whenever they joined and stood together in one army-as in Saladin...
...indiscriminate listener with brass ears, plenty of time on his hands and a normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week...
...ides of March came and went last week, and brought with it the most widespread depression talk in a decade. The sound and fury were touched off by publication of the unemployment totals for February, showing 5,173,000, or 6.7% of the labor force,* out of work, considerably more than in the 1953-54 downturn, but about the same as in the 1948-49 recession...
...script, by Rip Van Ronkel, is written with a nice sense of pace. The camera, moreover, is wittily used. The long, slow start in which the husband and wife go through the motions of getting ready for work is a piece of slickly observed americana. The acting is sound, too, even in the side parts. Best of all is the work of Director José Ferrer, who has even managed to coax a graceful, flexible performance out of wooden-faced Leading Man José Ferrer...