Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross, a couple strolled down the aisle to Row G, soon complained to an usherette that another couple had usurped their No. 1 and 2 seats. The unwitting usurpers: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, enjoying an incognito evening out. Apologetically and still unrecognized by the audience...
...true that __ +984 = 984+793. The point is to discover that adding numerals in varying orders does not affect the sum. Later they watch a movie projector running backward and forward, extract the rules of positive and negative multiplication. Then they see two unpunctuated signs : "Slow Children at Play" and "Save Rags and Waste Paper," a good case for algebraic brackets and parentheses. It takes time, concedes Beberman. "But we feel that every child needs to experience the delight of a researcher when he stumbles on a new principle...
Davis started his musical career playing clarinet in the school band near home in Weybridge, Surrey. Later he played in the band of the Household Cavalry, soon knew he wanted to be a conductor: "I suppose you can only compare it with a religious conversion. Suddenly the spirit reveals itself to you; suddenly you understand what music is all about." The "nearest thing to professional training" that Clarinetist Davis got was the opportunity to play under, and observe, Conductor Fritz Busch as a member of the Glyndebourne Orchestra. Davis then led a number of small instrumental and singing groups...
...progress: at Tennessee State, primarily a top-rank basketball school (national small-college champions in 1957-59), women's track is now a major sport, men's track a minor. Temple's training methods are exacting. "We train the European way," he says. "No play; just hard work." In the months preceding last week's trials, the Tigerbelles refused dates, dieted carefully, were up at 5 a.m. each day for exhausting, lengthy workouts, went back in the afternoon for another two hours of technique polishing...
...been making shoe laces for 40 years and sells at a respectable six times earnings ratio. Change the name from Shoelaces, Inc. to Electronics & Silicon Furth-burners. In today's market, the words 'electronics' and 'silicon' are worth 15 times earnings. However, the real play in this stock comes from the word 'furth-burners,' which no one under stands. A word that no one understands entitles you to double your entire score...