Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to Parker's Parker and Pan Am's Juan Trippe [TIME, Oct. 27]. Mr. Parker made the statement of the century concerning tariff elimination: "We'll take our chances on U.S. production and merchandising savvy any time against all comers . ." Protective tariffs today heighten the cost of living for the consumer. They cheat the producer of the advantage and necessity of meeting competition in foreign markets . . . Mr. Trippe's decision to keep abreast of the times by purchasing $6,300,000 worth of jet liners from Britain's De Havilland Co. . . . makes possible foreign...
...speech inflections, but it does not even come close. There can be no excuse for accenting the second syllable of "Larry" (this happens at least twice) or for writing crescendo that reach their peak at the most unimportant word of a sentence. Nor does the music ever serve to heighten the dramatic situation. Instead, it is mildly pleasant background music that certainly does not represent Yellin at his best...
...ideal church music," says Davison, "should never be a distracting end in itself, but should exist to heighten the significance of the texts to which it is set and to be an ally of the attitude of worship...
...counterblast served only to heighten the tension. The Sandspur editors refused to retract, instead announced that they would put out another issue "in elaboration of the last one." Finally, two days ahead of their scheduled meeting, the majority of the trustees stepped in again...
...policy of telling the news as we see it gets us into trouble with authoritarian governments anywhere - Latin America not excepted. But the censor's scissors and the dictator's edicts only heighten the educated reader's determination to get the news. Over the past decade, even the "strong men" have tried to govern by more & more democratic methods and have become less & less prone to interfere with what people read. Though single issues are sometimes confiscated, only Perón's Argentina still bans TIME. In all countries, of course, TIME-readers make full...