Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glimpsed only briefly and dimly, as the ponderous metaphysical clouds parted for a moment, then coalesced in still thicker obscurity. Through the shadowy haze, however, they could sense the mammoth struggles that the voice affirmed were raging all around them. From far off they could sometimes catch the sound of the straining ontological tensions: the grunts and heaves of Destiny striving with Freedom, of Dynamics with Form, of Essence with Existence, and Boundlessness with Finitude...
...Boeing Bomarc ramjet guided missile, capable of flying three times the speed of sound, was also fired before noon...
...Angeles, which boasts, as of this week, 20 FM stations. Both Lincoln and Continental are advertising FM dashboard sets, and a fortnight ago Mutual Broadcasting System announced plans to acquire seven FM stations, the legal limit on single ownership. Boston's WCRB, which pioneered in stereophonic sound, is offering a record 128 hours of concert music a week, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co.'s four new "FM only" outlets are making a pitch to advertisers who prefer "a rifle shot to a shotgun blast." Says Westinghouse President Donald McGannon: "FM is at last on the march, and that...
...kickbacks, exorbitant insurance charges and various other forms of malfeasance." The committee later showed that thievery was not the only problem. "Countless millions," said the committee, had been lost in union or jointly operated funds by "mismanagement, lack of know-how, waste, extravagance, nepotism, a lack of criteria for sound operation." They cited not only neglect of actuarial and investment principles in setting up welfare plans, but also "an almost complete lack of routine accounting to the beneficiaries." They also criticized plans that invested as much as 100% of union welfare and pension funds in the stock of a company...
...next stage of life for Dave is his strange platonic affair with Gwen French. Gwen is teacher of "creative writing" at Parkman College, where "the sharp vinegary smell of intellectual ferment was everywhere... and the sizzling sound of the frying brains." Naturally, Dave falls into her skillet. He dreams of "a long, rich, exchangeful, reaching out, and perhaps even sometimes touching, making contact, love affair." But Gwen French believes that unrequited love drives a man to ink. Dave's novel progresses to a tattoo of discipline and advice ("Don't complexify...