Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sense of Purpose. In Rockingham, N.C., Joanne Bullard, 22, got a six-month prison term for trying to smuggle two hacksaw blades to her husband in the county jail, along with a note saying: "Hurry home. Honey...
...quietly confident. On the floor, nobody bothered to keep score. Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck sat quietly relaxed; Ohio's William McCulloch, the G.O.P. floor manager for the bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...jury concurred, and in October, by a vote of 8 to 1, found the commander not guilty. A crowd of 5,000 outside the courtroom broke into cheers; people knelt down on traffic islands to give thanks. The only discordant note came from the presiding judge. He ruled that the jury's verdict was "perverse," and he insisted on referring the case to Bombay's high court for review. Its decision: Nanavati was guilty as charged, and sentenced to life imprisonment...
...through a selection of Chopin etudes, preludes and mazurkas, giving each of them beautiful tone and lyric line, crystalline clarity and virtuoso technique to burn. Said a judge after he played Chopin's E-Minor Concerto in the finals: "I don't think he missed a single note." The only criticism of Pollini was that his staggering technical facility and his octave-wide span sometimes tempted him into playing at too fast a pace...
...John-"that dear man" to Anne's tea-sipping cronies-was all work, although his peers regarded it as play. He produced artificial pearls from mussels he kept in the bottom of his fish pond. While Anne plunked at her pianoforte, he listened until he fixed the exact note hummed by a swarm of bees (treble A above middle C). Obliging friends and zookeepers plied him with odd creatures for dissection. Only with reluctance did he take time for his patients. "I must go and earn this damn'd guinea," he complained, "or I shall be sure...