Word: steep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What astonished the audience was the singers' ability to negotiate Schonberg's dissonances and steep intervals with a familiarity that made the composer seem almost as accessible as the Gemutlichkeitladen German romantics. Sinewy and biting, the music called for an unerring sense of rhythm and pitch, and the Gregg Smith Singers responded on cue like a well-oiled machine. Conductor Smith had arranged his twelve male and 13 female singers cannily, spreading them across the entire width of the stage in an arc that gave breadth and transparency to the group sound. It was, said a delighted local...
...Manhole. The increase of people hooked on sound matches the steep curve of radio sales. Buyers snatched up a few thousand portable transistor sets when they first hit the market in late 1954; last year, including Japanese-made sets that brought the prices down to well under $10, unit sales rose to a record 8,500,000. Like other addicts, the bleatniks are ingenious in their devotion to their pastime. They attend baseball games, trusty radio in hand, and tune in on the sportscaster to be certain that the announcer sees what the bleacherite sees; sometimes the fan tunes...
Once a Hudson River whaling port and a headquarters for George Washington's colonial army, steep-sloping, tree-shaded Newburgh (pop. 31,000) has long been a shopping center for the green and pleasant fruit farms that prosper in the rolling hills of Orange County. Since World War II, most of the farms have been serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall...
...chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder...
Inclusion of farm goods was a basic provision of the original Rome treaty, but the West Germans, whose farmers are heavily protected by price subsidies and steep tariffs, have managed to stall year after year. As for Britain, it has always insisted it could join the Common Market Six only if its own farm prices were left unaffected. But the message from France was clear: the longer Britain waited, the higher the price would...