Word: staccatos
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...ergograph (machine to test muscle fatigue), given mechanical reflex tests. Without his knowledge a motion-picture camera hidden by a wall chart records every revealing facial reaction, every embarrassed ear-scratching, every fake posturing. His voice is tested for warmth of melody (strong sympathies and emotions) or hard, staccato timbre (calm and determined will power). His reactions to sounds are tried. His hand writing and physical appearance are analyzed. As a test of leadership, he is given a group of infantry soldiers whom he must instruct and supervise in some manual operation, such as assembling a prefabricated bridge...
...barracks. The announcer said: "The Russian fire is not enough to hold up our infantry. [Chatter of machine guns; bombs falling.] Light machine guns are now going forward. The bunker over there still answers. It is not made of concrete, but of logs. The Russians are coming forward now [staccato of rifles] but naturally they are stopped. Again we see our infantry going ahead. . . . The bunker is ours. Apparently the first Russian prisoners are in our hands...
...recorded-to sell to her friends at $2.50 a copy-by Mrs. Florence Foster Jenkins, rich, elderly amateur soprano and musical clubwoman. Mrs. Jenkins' night-queenly swoops and hoots, her wild wallowings in descending trills, her repeated staccato notes like a cuckoo in its cups, are innocently uproarious to hear, almost as much so as the annual song recital which she gives in Manhattan. For that event, a minor phenomenon in U.S. music, knowing Manhattanites fight for tickets. Mrs. Jenkins is well pleased with the success of her Queen of the Night record, and hopes to make others...
...Secretary of War briskly opened, conducted and closed a press conference in nine minutes flat. Despite the Washington heat, the electric fans in the War Department council room had been turned off, so that the 73-year-old Secretary could clearly hear the reporters' questions. Said he, with staccato conciseness...
...playing with a superior technique, and with what impresses me as being a far greater sensitivity to the melodic potentialities of his instrument. The result is that Hall plays the best hot music you can hear on clarinet these days. Every note is a rhythmic best, hard and staccato, a method of playing which can pick up even the most lifeless of bands and make them really kick. Yet at the same time he never forgets his own musical ideas, and expresses them with a spontaneity which can be awfully refreshing after listening to Artie Shaw choruses, which are executed...