Word: unison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News reported "Sweaty exorcists are having less and less success . . . at the self imposed job of routing students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the Square and mutter gibberish in unison the night before a so-called big game." The Daily News as right, for it has been spirits not spirit that have typified football weekends in the past two decades. Before the Yale game in the year of the News article the Harvard Provision Company advertised special scotch for the big game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported...
...companion advanced an idea. In one day, the pair lifted 800 yen ($2.20) from passengers on the Tokyo subway. Negishi acted as lookout while his young friend exercised his skill. Next day, both were arrested by a plainclothesman on Tokyo's pickpocket squad. Cried the culprits in unison: "We have failed." Said the detective to Negishi: "If you have no more brains than to do this sort of thing, better go back to being a mechanic...
...little glass windows, the tubes of cancer tissue on their merry-go-rounds, the rows of deft-fingered girls with the squeaking, doomed white mice, the dangerous viruses, the green and white molds, the thousands upon thousands of chemical agents, the scholarly chemists, physicists, biologists, clinicians all working in unison to defeat the common enemy: cancer...
...their best pin-striped trousers and their warmest smiles. There was some happy oratory. One speaker exclaimed: "The blossoms are opening;" the meeting's chairman called for a teuchi shiki (an old Japanese ceremony of congratulations). The assembled bankers and brokers solemnly rose and clapped their hands in unison, 13 times. Then they adjourned for a buffet lunch of roast beef, beer and strawberry shortcake...
...interpretation of the Ninth made clearer and even more awesome the strake simplicity of Beethoven's music. The opening bars of the first movement, just simple open fifths descending in the strings, were built up inexorably to the first statement of the theme by the whole orchestra in unison. It is a simple dominant-tonic progression, the first thing taught in an elementary harmony course. Simple means indeed, but nothing more overpowering has even been written...