Word: swatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...transports converted by the U.S. Air Force, the plane harassed the Reds with its three General Electric-built "Miniguns"-six-barreled super Catlings that can deliver up to 6,000 rounds of 7.62 mm. slugs a minute. Flying in increasingly widening circles, one Puff can slash a swatch of jungle to salad in moments. At Tuy An it did the trick. The attacking Communists-hard-core troops judging by their khaki uniforms, steel helmets and leather webbing-pulled back with heavy losses...
Frame of Reference. Small circulation (57,000) inevitably limits the impact of such observations, no matter how honed. But the Seventh Avenue community served by Gottfried and Women's Wear makes up an important swatch of every theater audience; garment manufacturers are traditional theatergoers as well as busy entertainers of out-of-town buyers. And in the smart set that reads the paper for more than its fashion reports (among them: Pat Lawford, Rosalind Russell and Mrs. William Paley), the critic's reputation has spread cross-country...
...score is jaggedly dissonant, an extension of the twelve-tone music espoused by Nono's idol and father-in-law, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg. Italian Composer Bruno Maderna conducted the performance like a man refereeing a pingpong match, swinging from side to side to summon a swatch of mewing strings here, a splash of braying trumpets there. For the singers it was "up and down, up and down, from high C to low F," said Tenor Lawrence White. "It's enough to drive you crazy...
...place on earth that the children want to visit, including every sort of hanging garden and bower of bliss in the bibliography of never-never lands. The children, deprived of human love by the machine substitute, elect a sterner environment. They turn the room into a dry and baking swatch of the African veldt. In the end, they lock their parents in there, where a pride of hungry lions tears the adults to pieces...
...French soldiers who opposed him during Algeria's war of independence, Colonel Mohammed Chaabani was "the seigneur of the sands." A tough, canny guerrilla leader, he dominated a sere swatch of the Sahara and the rugged Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria. After independence, Chaabani joined Premier Ahmed ben Bella's Politburo and the army's general staff, but quickly grew restive under Ben Bella's heavy-handed Marxist dictatorship. Last June that uneasiness boiled over into open rebellion, and Chaabani took to the hills with a hard core of his veteran troops...