Word: unison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottle of beer. Elly Ardelty, netless, stands on her pretty blonde head on a trapeze at the very top of the circus heavens. Massimilliano Truzzi juggles knives, flaming torches and the spectators' nerves. Half a hundred elephants galumph around the ring and take a bow in unison. Hubert Castle staggers like a drunken clubman on his tightwire. And in his air-conditioned, chrome steel cage in the menagerie, Gargantua, the 550-lb. gorilla who at eleven years is probably not yet old enough to mate with M'Toto, his presumed gorillass (TIME, March 3), makes the angriest faces...
...explodes. His constant subject is the national debt, his constant refrain, "Where are we going to get the money?" For years Mr. Rich has stuck to his point and that question. The House has become so used to Mr. Rich that members often join in the chorus, roaring in unison: "Where are we going to get the money...
...from the fact that its author thinks solely in terms of economics. What are the economic and ideological arguments for intervention? They are, he says, 'stripped to their bare essentials," straight imperialism-our foreign trade- seven per cent of our national income. One may picture American leaders shouting in unison: "Get in there boys and fight like the devil for that big, juicy seven per cent!" Any consideration of a free intellectual life, the kind of life that Harvard and other great American universities uphold today, any regard for religious liberty for which this country stands four-square, any consideration...
First of all Tokyo newspapers broke into one of their unison chants. One thing which must not happen, they said, is "military action by powers threatening The Netherlands Indies ... or even temporary protective measures." Japan would protect the islands from such protection...
Librarians of Harvard, M. I. T. and Radcliffe shuddered in unison as they thought of the thousands of books and maps they might have to mutilate. Libertarians shuddered for the newspapers they might not be permitted to read. In Chicago, the conventioning American Library Association cried: "The Cambridge action is a blow to democracy and an infringe ment on the freedom of the press...