Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Originally a trombone player, McCoy says he switched to trumpet when his trombone slide kept knocking off ladies' hats during choir practice at the Methodist Church in his home town, Portsmouth, Ohio. In the '30s, Bandleader McCoy was a consistent winner of a jazz-magazine poll labeling him "The King of Corn." The title never bothered...
...stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between the two arts. "And so I gently slide into the world of tonality," said he at 24, when he began to turn from etching to painting...
...signs of encouragement. According to the Dow theory, if the industrials break through their recent low, followed by the rails going through their last low, a bear market has started. Last week the industrials plunged through their low of Sept. 22, and the theorists suspensefully watched the rails slide down. The rails got right down to their fall low of 146.65, then scooted up again without breaking through. To the Dow theorists, this was an encouraging sign...
...stock market was a matter of concern last week not only to harried investors but to businessmen worried about the impact of its slide on U.S. business psychology. In a week of wild gyrations, it plummeted as much as 12.2 points in a few hours, bounced back up again, roller-coasted through the week. At week's end the market was down to 622.23 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in five months...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...