Word: top
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brooks acknowledges that he is probably on the short end of the stick in terms of which team has more top-notch swimmers. so he will have to make the best use of his talent...
...music sounds like nobody else's: short, choppy phrases, thorny melodies that blossom abruptly and are suddenly plucked away, trumpets and trombones that whoop with glee, orchestration that seems all top and bottom with a yawning gap in between...
...obtain such hitherto top-secret information, Bull ran a front-page ad in the London Times requesting "History of E. Bear Esquire. Reminiscences, Data, Photographs." He also issued public pleas for facts and figures on arctophilia during television appearances with "Theodore," oldest of his own Teddies (all of whom, he complains, get into "a foul temper" when he is away from them). Letters poured in from both American and British bear lovers, as well as from several bears ("They are just as articulate as Other Persons"). Bull soon discovered that of the 250 Teddy bears lost on transport vehicles...
ATTITUDE: Each side takes care not to surprise the other. A labor-management committee meets three times yearly to discuss the next moves. It helps, too, that, as Clas-Erik Odhner, a top official of Sweden's LO, puts it, "everyone knows everyone else. We are all friends...
...theatre today that top 10 per cent is no longer very interesting because you can see it closer up in films. What we are trying to show is part of the other 90 per cent by these distortions and exaggerations...