Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jenkins is unique among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
Carter has found that the oil companies are not easily beaten in Washington, and he has compromised himself and his party in the process. "When the trumpet sounds an uncertain note, you don't know whom to follow," said Rep. Bob Eckhardt (D-Tex.). Kennedy holds forth the promise of a more consistent, courageous and worthy leadership on energy issues...
...trumpet sounds for the campaign...
Fighting a rearguard action against the money funds, many bankers trumpet that their deposits are guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and that money market funds are riskier. There is a slight risk, but since the funds are put largely into top bank and corporate securities, a number of banks and cor porations would have to go broke before the typical money market investor would suffer much loss. He would not even lose, but his yields would go down, if interest rates declined. If they dropped far enough, he might have been wiser to invest in a long-term...
...obtain enough uranium to make their own bombs. The assignment is handed to Dickstein, whose cover is subsequently blown by Hassan. Enter Ros tov and his Muscovites, bent on thwarting Israel's campaign. Enter also the fedayeen, who aim to capture the stolen uranium and trumpet Israel's perfidy to the world. Dickstein is also dogged by his own mistrustful Mossad; his most useful ally turns out to be Wartime Buddy Cor tone, now a Mafia don. And, for the first time in a bitter life, Nat falls in love; the object of his unexpected affection is Suza...