Word: unison
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...clad German woman contingent got a big hand for an exhibition of ball throwing, even though they several times knocked the medicine ball into the orchestra seats. Young Englishmen flew nimbly on and off the gymnastic horses; 17 lovely young women from the Unifed Arab Republic banged sticks in unison; a troupe of muscle-flexing Danish maids rolled about the stage so sensuously that some of the crowd, reminded of other occasions, were moved to encouraging shouts of "Take it off." If not everyone was professionally proficient, they all were amateurishly enjoying themselves. And the best were good (see cuts...
Always intelligible, the chorus may well be quite an attraction in future performances. They have already achieved a good unison sound and, hopefully, will project more style into their stylized gestures as time goes on. Raphael Crystal's music provided an exciting musical foundation and added considerably to the force of the singing...
According to Morgenthau, the Council has declined because the great powers have been unable to act in unison when their divergent interests were at stake. In addition, the main threat to peace and security emanates from these nations. Morgenthau explained that the actual transformation of the Assembly into the dominant agency of the U.N. was possible only because the U.S., until 1956, was able to round up the support of a two-thirds majority...
...first, German audiences watch with embarrassed distaste, now snickering at the wild gesticulations of the early Hitler, now clearing throats in unison as Rudolf Hess shouts: "My Fűhrer, you are Germany. When you judge, the people judge." The shock comes with 1942, as the film moves on to footage shot by SS cameramen in the Warsaw ghetto and found by Leiser in mislabeled cans in East German archives (the Red government let him buy the ten reels for $8 a meter...
...address to address in search of sweet status, Suburbia is at the same time the home of the talented and distinguished Americans who write the nation's books, paint its paintings, run its corporations and set the patterns.* If its legions sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious strivings to find...