Use of English PRO

(0) BUT they (1) ............ to come much later. The war in Europe intruded, inadvertently giving me a taste for what (2) ............ scorned as "classical" music. When I was 12, back in 1943, wartime radio broadcasts were preceded by four emphatic musical notes. (3) ............ notes replicated the Morse code's three dots and a dash for the letter V and were conscripted as a symbol for "V for Victory", the slogan we lived with in those troubled (4) ............ "Who wrote (5) ............? I once asked an aunt. "Beethoven," she said. (6) ............ was my introduction to genius. For those, of course, were the opening notes to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. So at a tender (7) ............, I learned there was more (8) ............ music than 'Genie from Bizerte' and 'Besame Mucho', two of 1943's hit parade ditties.