Word: spared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soloists Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, John Jones, Arthur Mitchell. The dancing for the most part was sinuous and tentative, borrowing some of its movements from the Lindy Hop, but on the whole avoiding the Lindy's frenzied exuberance. Schuller's score was the essence of the "cool"-spare, fragmentary, resembling jazz only in its rhythmic drive. Like some of Schuller's other recent work, it represented an attempt to weld jazz and classical music in what he himself refers to as Third Stream Music. Unfortunately, the stream never seemed to be flowing anywhere...
...would operate its defense of that chaotic country. The Thai forces are shaky but improving rapidly. This year Thailand's air force got its first North American F-86s (graduating from ancient F-84s). The 90,000-man army is weak in communications and plagued by spare-parts shortages, but its intrepid front-line troops are equipped with M-1 rifles. Five good airfields stand ready as front-line bases for incoming jets from Clark Field...
Edward Mills Purcell, 48, now on leave from his job as a Harvard physics professor, says of his work: "The thing that's so wonderful is that you get paid for telling the truth, just laying it out for anyone to do with as they will." It was a spare-time experiment with a borrowed electromagnet and a quarter's worth of paraffin that led to his Nobel-prizewinning "nuclear resonance" system for measuring atomic properties. In his early studies of the 21-cm. radio waves coming from hydrogen clouds in interstellar space, Purcell made do with a hastily devised...
...allotted position-it seemed likely that the jet had somehow flown beyond its orbiting area into the La Guardia approach. Why Pilot Sawyer did so-whether as a result of instrument failure or human error (one radio was out of commission, but he had a usable spare)-may never be known...
...nearly made it the second try but toppled the bar with his mid-section. He was distracted on the final attempt, hit the crossbar with his knee going up, and had to settle for 7-1 1/2, which he had cleared earlier with an inch to spare...