Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loophole for Hope. The assassination of Razmara and fanatic threats of other killings would not have had so spectacular an effect on the Majlis if anti-British feeling had not been smoldering for years in Iran. It began to flare two years ago when Sir William Fraser, board chairman of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (which has a concession for all oil production in southern Iran), offered to double the royalties paid to the Iranian government...
...night. His motions look like a synthesis of Bernstein, Koussevitzky, and Munch. These mannerisms are often annoying in the original, but in the imitation they seem ludicrous. Furthermore, his beat lacks clarity, and as a result, there were many sloppy entrances. But these criticisms do not detract from his spectacular job of orchestra training...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
...second category, research and development, is more spectacular. During World War II the bureau produced the only successful guided missile ("the bat"), and the uncanny proximity fuse. Recently it has gone into electronic computers, turning out two for the Air Force that are probably the fastest in operation. In any future war, the bureau will be the laboratory behind the laboratories that design the fighting machines...
...first period the two teams played even hockey, with he Crimson taking 17 futile shots at Eli goalie Paul Cruikshank, who was spectacular in the nets all night. Yale only shot 11 times, but scored twice, on a screoned slap shot, and a pretty passout from just behind the Crimson net. The Bulldogs added two more in the second frame, one on a rink-length solo by Hal Howe, while Harvard took only four shots at the Yale goal...