Word: unison
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...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...
...government sees that we get plenty to eat in Russia," said the stranger. "Just look at me. Fat steaks and juicy bones every day." "Then," cried the others in unison, "why in the world did you leave...
Cross' bagpipe can not be used to play in unison with the band so it must be saved for spot solos. Bagpipes, it seems, cannot be tuned to the customary...
...Professor Louis Hartz is giving Social Sciences 118. I don't know anything about the course, but all the government concentrators I've ever met have put in plugs for Hartz. Their slogan goes "Hartz is great," and you can frequently hear small groups of them chanting it in unison...