Word: unison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven in the evening three times a week distraught baritones may be seen sprinting up to Sever Hall, for Associate Professor G. Wallace Woodworth starts his Glee Club rehearsals on time. With a gigantic sweep of his muscular arms, he sets two hundred pairs of vocal cords vibrating in unison. Late comers tiptoe to their positions to swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime...
...Dewey had gained prestige in the race for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. 4. But Democrats and Republicans protested in unison when Senator Fulbright said President Truman should...
...conductor's job is to make harmony. He plays the most complicated musical instrument conceivable-a symphony orchestra. When he plays well, he has only to raise his hand, or nod his head, and strings bow in unison, brasses, flutes and kettledrums come...
...experience is that detective stories are being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears...
Democrats and Republicans leaped to protest in unison. An anonymous Administration spokesman called the idea "utterly fantastic" (it would lose the Democrats the last remnants of federal patronage). Buzzed Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Wayne Morse: "Blind partisanship" (it would give a Democrat the power to appoint a Republican President...