Word: soundingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he moved on to policy, Eisenhower was very sound. While he would have done well to have taken stronger measures against intra-service rivalry, both his general policy and appointment of M.I.T.'s President Killian as his special assistant are laudable. However, the President's blatant minimization of Russia's recent achievements is hardly going to produce the peace of mind the President seeks. A little candor would have gone a long way last night...
...green eyes opened wide and glowed green, and her mouth spread and uttered a sound--not a word, but a guttural hissing--and he saw that she had not teeth. The glistening lips came to meet his and attached themselves to him wih a suction stronger than death, and her shawl dropped, revealing no arms, but a long, coiled, viscous body, the tubular shape of a tapeworm, eagerly welcoming him into its embrace...
...Sound and Fury...
...which was a great deal of sound and fury, signifying very little, for Wolfe's mother paid for his support through Harvard. What he really seemed to want was recognition, and a larger audience than the man in the classroom...
Jorge Guillen, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, discussed the unity of sound and meaning as seen in three Spanish poems, at the first of the Norton lectures last night in Longfellow Hall...