Word: unison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That did it. The students waved their flags and cried in unison: "We want Greater Gujarat!" Some rushed the platform, only to be repelled by police wielding lathis. "This is the law of the jungle!" Nehru shouted above the melee. "You are monkeys...
...British troops set up radio posts and roadblocks to guard every approach to the prison. For most of the night there was only deathly quiet. Then, sometime before dawn, through the muffling thickness of the prison walls a macabre chant broke the silence. Some 170 political prisoners shouted in unison, "Eoka, Eoka," and "Down with Harding!" Prison stools slammed against stone walls. At the moment calculated for the hanging, someone cried out "Goodbye, Stelios, goodbye," and then the traps were sprung...
...AMERICAN FARMER WILL TELL YOU THAT THE MOST INCREDIBLE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN MODERN TIMES WAS THE HERDING OF 1,323 SHEEP INTO A COW PALACE AND MAKING THEM SAY AYE IN UNISON, WITH NOT A SINGLE PROTESTING...
...when special page proofs of the Times's regular international edition* were placed on a revolving drum. At the same time, in a small Market Street office in San Francisco, another revolving drum bearing page-sized photographic film was made ready to roll. As the drums spun in unison 1,500 times a minute, electronic equipment carried impulses along the transcontinental circuit and converted them back into light, forming an image of the page on the film. A four-man technical crew supervised by Timesman E. Clifton Daniel Jr. (Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel served coffee and sandwiches) rushed...
...first group is not very good; the second, much better. Austin's piano music is an agglomeration of modal progressions, cast in big thick chords insensitively connected. There is nothing particularly cerebral in his style. Little is said. The same applies to the Canons. There-part canon at the unison or octave is difficult to write, since the harmonies during the imitations are somewhat limited to those implicit in the statements. The problem of gaining tonal variety is hardly met in Austin's canons; their only virtue is smooth voice writing...