Word: soundly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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house's Connor: "We've failed in our public duty. We should sound the alarm when a company is on the brink of disaster." Besides, he adds, "the courts are holding us responsible whether we like...
Audiophiles have long complained about the poor quality of TV sound. Lush movie scores, rock concerts and opera performances hardly sound their best when squeezed through a 3-in. TV speaker. But all that is changing with the advent of stereo TV. An estimated 2.8 million stereo TV sets are expected to be sold in 1986, double the number last year. Meanwhile, the IN STEREO logo is ) cropping up on more and more network programs, just as the familiar IN LIVING COLOR advisory did back in the early 1960s...
...morass of statistics provides a sound basis for objective discussion of Harvard's evolution as a world-renowned institution, but numbers alone do not make particularly enthralling reading. The authors seem to have forgotten that they do not have a captive audience in a lecture hall. Their writing is unoriginal, occasionally sloppy, and often repetitive. Facts overlap; the same figures reappear in separate essays, with the same glib descriptions: President John T. Kirkland is always "charming," President Charles W. Eliot is "the right sort," George Santayana is eccentric. All of the characters are flat. The authors, some of whom...
...SOUND SARCASTIC, and that's because John put me on the defensive. The sincere consideration of my religious beliefs, yea or nay, is important to me. But this serious issue, which John had made his product, coupled with his sly presentation, nettled me, closed up my ears. His cordial hustle had been effective enough that I answered him straightforwardly--but negatively. Chris just rolled his eyes, and shook his head. And in less than half a minute, his unsuccessful spiel through, John was gone...
...expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the ancient site of Mycenae, an explosion shook the aircraft. At first the pilot, Captain Richard Peterson, 56, a 30-year veteran, thought the problem was a broken window, though he later likened the thunderous sound to that of "a shotgun going off next to your ear." Said Passenger Jane Klingel, 25, from California: "The plane shook, as it would in turbulence. In front of me, I saw a sort of green lightning. I thought I was dying...