Word: unison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon a signal from the stage, the audience turned to the left in unison and each person gave his neighbor a hearty pat on the back. Then they all turned to the right and patted again...
They form penitents into groups of 25. And they install the buddy system: everyone who signs up gets the phone number of one other member, and pledges himself to check daily on his buddy's progress. Folkenberg gets smokers to repeat-in unison at meetings, and countless times a day-"I choose to give up smoking," as evidence that they are exercising their will power...
...prance 17 abundantly healthy girls, strenuously smiling. They are big, leggy and bosomy. They can do a cakewalk; they can swivel through a Charleston to the music of Yes, We Have No Bananas and Ain't She Sweet? They can shimmy, shake and kick their legs in perfect unison. Then they race into the wings to ruffles, flourishes and fanfares in the orchestra and table thumping applause from the audience in the world-famed Lido of Paris...
...that radio telescopes have found in the sky. At first those distant transmitters of energy seemed to be associated with nothing at all-at least nothing that could be photographed with optical telescopes. Then Caltech's giant interferometer in Owens Valley (two 90-ft. radio telescopes working in unison) mapped many double sources with unprecedented accuracy. When the new radio map of the sky was superimposed on photographs taken with the 200-in. Palomar telescope, a galaxy was often neatly bracketed between paired spots of radio energy...
...first few minutes you feel a little uneasy. It's all so familiar. Admiral being given an award for service. Sits down to tell his story. Bystanders kind of talk in unison, mumble questioningly on cue. Corny serious--you can see the script in big letters in your mind. "My family has been in nautical circles ever since we can remember," says Alec Guinness thoughtfully. And the scene dissolves into an Alec Guinness caveman paddling his primitive canoe-thing around in little circles...