Word: uprights
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...save the life of a small boy born into the Atomic Age. The treatise-explained how: "Junior will feel the wind go by, the dirt and pebbles blown with hurricane force against his head . . . A few cuts on the arms and legs aren't important. His playmates, standing upright, will be blown over like matchsticks. Some may get concussion, some broken bones...
...many a musician is concerned, they gave the intimate and delicate world of chamber music its rudest shock since Beethoven. With his First Quartet, composed in 1908 when he was 27, Bartok stalked into a field of harsh, hybrid harmonies and fierce rhythms that jolted Budapest listeners upright in their seats. In the Second (1917), Third (1927) and Fourth (1928), he cultivated the field; his harmonies became more astringent, the rhythms more incisive, the textures ever tighter. Listeners found much that was either impenetrable or unpalatable, but they also heard tonal colors never produced by four stringed instruments before...
...Herete, her etc [farewell]," waved black-clothed peasants when Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet last week made his goodbye tour of army commands in loannina, Koizani and Salonika. Greeks consider upright, sturdy Van Fleet, who for 2% years has been the head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group in Greece, the symbol of America and eleftheria (freedom). He had helped the Greeks to win what he once called "a "first-class war against international Communism...
...child, Detroit Symphony Musician Eugene Braunsdorf did everything in his power to make her happy and comfortable. It was a heartbreaking task; Virginia was a spastic child, and grew slowly into a helpless parody of womanhood. At 21, she was only four feet tall, could not hold her head upright, and talked in gobbling sounds which only her father could understand...
...bird-like sips from a glass of orange juice and honey. At the end of the first hour the drama had been squeezed out of the annual rite; some members' heads were nodding. Winston Churchill fidgeted fretfully, first slumping down in his seat, then drawing himself bolt upright to peer dully at the green carpet between his feet. When Cripps finished, there were only two cheerful men in the chamber-Cripps himself and Tory Chief Lord Woolton, who smiled down blandly from the gallery...