Word: string
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...businessmen lounged around the 350-seat, two-story formica and brass complex in their blue pinstripes, Downstairs, a string quartet churned out Bach, drowned out by the talk of loans and investment capital and the profit potential of breakfast that went on above...
Harvard actually had three mini-seasons within its full season: a 1-3-1 beginning, an unblemished 5-0 string in the middle of the year, and an 0-4-1 stretch to close out its schedule...
...next to the pilot, my back to the controls, staring out the window of the door through which I will soon exit. I watch as the plane rumbles down the runway, lifts and spirals over the center, the lakes, the large clumps and bands of trees and the long strings of high tension wires. The master standing at the door of the plane, straddles my legs, smiles and shouts over the din of the wind and machinery. "I'm hooking you up now." He attaches the beginner's 12 foot parachute line to the static line, the string of lines...
Bruce served notice of his arrival this year with an unbroken string of victories that has carried the Buckeyes to top-five ranking in both the A.P. and U.P.I, football polls. In the process, he has healed the ugly divisions on and off campus that followed Woody Hayes' ouster as head coach last January after Hayes slugged a Clemson player during the closing minutes of the Gator Bowl. If Ohio State can get by Iowa and Archrival Michigan in its final two games, Bruce could finish his first year in Hayes' shoes with a Big Ten title...
...also to satisfy the human craving for symbolic ceremonials. The politician's own requirements in a democracy carried things a step further. To win a constituency, the politician must first gather a crowd and turn it into an audience. Enter show biz. In the old days the string band on the courthouse square became as indispensable for that purpose as are the musical groups and superstars in this day of mass culture. Says Joanne Woodward of theatrical personalities who get drawn into campaigns: "Let's face it, we're shills...