Word: unison
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...bands at the baseball game trying to play Harvard songs in unison from two opposite sides of the field. The result was two bands in three-quarters of same time...
...fuss, little fun. This year's Carrolling is supposed to represent in 50 scenes a U. S. chorine's idea of her nation's past. The doll-voices of a bevy of "the most beautiful girls in the world" inaugurate this motif by squealing in unison...
...calm, dark evenings of high humidity, observers may occasionally see hundreds of fireflies scattered over a considerable area, all flashing in unison. The phenomenon has aroused such interest that since 1916 no less than 19 accounts of it have been printed in Science. Fortnight ago a 20th communication was published by John Bonner Buck of Johns Hopkins' Zoological Laboratory. Mr. Buck said he had induced synchronized flashing in fireflies with an electric torch, was thus able to shed new light on the reason for its natural occurrence...
...long-winded Seventh Symphony. When the performance was ended the audience stayed to cheer but the conductor plucked at the concertmaster's sleeve, his cue for the players to clear the stage. For Toscanini, who scorns the dessert of applause, the evening ended with the last mighty unison of the Bach-Respighi Prelude & Fugue...
...excited peasants from all of Italy's 93 provinces who surrounded him the Dictator finally exclaimed: "Now you understand what the cannon's voice has thundered in unison with mine! Both the plowshare and the sword are made of sharpened steel, similar to the faith that burns in our hearts...