Word: uppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...newly coined name for viruses which cause upper respiratory infections somewhere between the common cold and influenza...
...getting so cold on the upper reaches of the Mississippi that the University of Minnesota football team decided on a year-end vacation. Pasadena's Rose Bowl seemed just the place. "We've talked it all over," said Coach Murray Warmath, "and if we're good enough, we'd like to go." The unbeaten Gophers figured to be more than good enough to beat Iowa's corn-fed Hawkeyes and earn the trip to California...
...mills at Csepel island. With their heavy 76-mm. guns, the Soviet tanks had attempted to blast the rebels out of their hiding places, but the "incredible youngsters" had evolved their own technique for dealing with the mighty 26-ton tanks. First they would fire on the tanks from upper-story windows, then as the big T-345 rumbled up, their great guns elevated, a small boy would leap out of a doorway, fling a pail of gasoline over the tank's engine compartment and leap back to shelter. As the tank took fire and its crew scrambled...
Whatever the logic of it, it makes a decidedly good show. Major Barbara is full of marvelous ideological eye-foolers and glittering intellectual pinwheels and dialectical tugs of war. Beyond that, Shaw has mingled bright drawing-room chatter with sharp cockney unpleasantries, thrown in here an amusing upper-clawss idiot, there a bellowing lower-class bully...
Dazzling Endurance. Her voice has flaws, as the critics eagerly pointed out. Notably, on opening night, she became shrill in the upper register. But in the low and middle registers she sang with flutelike purity, tender and yet sharply disciplined, and in the upper reaches-shrill or not-she flashed a swordlike power that is already legend. In one of the repertory's most strenuous roles-Prima Donna Lilli Lehmann called Norma tougher than all three Briinnhildes-the Callas voice rose from her slender frame with dazzling endurance. No doubt, other great operatic sopranos can coax out of their...