Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...earliest portable radio was the most portable ever made, the lightest, the least expensive and completely solid state. And this was almost 60 years ago. It consisted of a galena crystal detector mounted on a necktie stickpin and had four connections, for antenna, ground and headphones...
Minutes pass. The phrase "folk music" appears in one of my sentences. Forbert launches a gravelly monologue on the theme "What is folk music, really?" Then we find safe, pleasant ground in a mutual admiration for Mississippi novelist William Faulkner. Somehow, that subject takes an uncanny turn toward Forbert soliloquizing about how people need direction and motivation, how--if they haven't found it yet--they should continue to search. For the first time, eloquence of a sort enters the room. Out of the mud, the lotus flower blooms. I extend a handshake, happy to have what few notes...
...undergraduate organizations stand together, however, the "kiosk rule" must fall. It is too late to rip the kiosks out of the ground, but student groups can demand that the prohibition of posters on walls be dropped and that the kiosks be properly maintained to eliminate piles of old, unreadable notices...
Sophomore Tiina Bougas continued a season of strong play at the number one slot yesterday, demolishing Tufts' Michele Rosen, 6-1, 6-1. Bougas bombarded her opponent with a bewildering variety of ground strokes to get the Crimson off on the right foot...
Nicholas, who also ground out 91 yards to enjoy a fine day on offense, caught the two-point Hatamiya conversion pass. Don't tell the officials, but Nicholas also centered the snap on the conversion attempt...