Word: hazarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Society did not succumb to this hazard. Its chorus was, above all, conscious of the spirit of liturgical dramatic works, so that while the performance was not a surpassingly beautiful one, it was exceptionally tasteful and engaging. And this was not so much the result of doggedly exhuming every ornament as of pentrating to the irreducible dramatic intention of each composition. The performers were most successful in the movingSong of Simeon, in which a baroque solo choir in the balcony sings a text different from that of the main choir, symbolizing in Schutz's words...
...Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There are V.C. potshotters on the ground, swarms of U.S. fighters, transports, helicopters and spotter planes in the air. "Our major hazard," complains Chief Pilot Ed Dearborn, "is overcrowded airways, not the enemy." So far, the CAS has lost only one plane, a small Beechcraft that crashed while landing in the prop wash of a big transport...
M.I.T.'s Department of Humanities yesterday cancelled two performances of the Living Theatre on the grounds that the large numbers of people crowding in the aisles and on the stage were a safety hazard...
...determined" to keep joblessness at a minimum; Nixon vows to fight inflation "without increasing unemployment." In Washington, Chief White House Economic Adviser Arthur Okun took exception to the view that braking measures would have to be continued for very long. Inflation, he warned, might be less of a hazard than a prolonged slowdown, which could bring on "a stall and perhaps a tailspin...
What, if anything, do these figures prove? Said Statistician Hammond cautiously: "I would rather not hazard a guess as to the mechanism underlying this association." Neither Hammond nor physicians reviewing his data can be certain which comes first-the arterial disease, or the tendency to sleep longer than average...