Word: thickly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playing a Bach adagio, but it was a feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know...
...makes "track" not only through the solid heavy ice but through once broken ice refrozen in crazy-quilt patches the Coast Guardsmen call "brash." Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff, bit by bit. As we hit a swath of virgin ice half a mile wide, out in the bay, the twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick...
Whatever else you order, definitely try the onion soup. Made with gruyere cheese, croutons, and big pieces of slivery onion, it's baked and then served steaming hot--very thick and very good...
...already running hard. As he set off on a six-day campaign-testing trip to Washington, New York and Detroit, he sat among the commoners at the rear of the tourist section on TWA's Flight 890, alternately signing autographs for fellow passengers and consulting a thick red briefing book entitled "Economics of a Balanced Federal Budget." His goal, he said, was "to launch a national debate on amending the Constitution to balance the federal budget...
...Paul can use his loss at the Easterns as a springboard toward correcting the deficiencies that caused it, he will be right in the thick of the battle at 118 lbs. in next year's Eastern championship," said coach Johnny...