Word: string
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...with oil Hole, the rising crime rates. But I was just as surprised by the things that had not changed: the eerie desolation of a high-country road in Wyoming, the majesty of the Teton mountains, and especially the open warmth of the Westerner. I left behind me a string of meal invitations and bottomless coffee cups...
...teacher and the emotional collapse of her charge; Dreyfuss's disputing Conductor Sam Wanamaker's interpretation of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and taking over the baton to show the orchestra how it should be done (not exactly the way to win an important friend); a string snapping in Irving's piano as she launches into her concerto (she insists on changing not only pianos but the piece she has rehearsed). Besides all this, there are the predictable bits of sad personal histories, familial pressures and sexual hanky-panky with which the participants must deal...
Young Yves St. Laurents, for example, can practice on Fashion Plates, which teaches them to produce designer clothes. And young subcontractors will gain valuable experience from the Tuff Stuff Tool Kit, with its string-powered rotary drill...
What Crimson Coach Rick Duckett sees as his squad's defensive weakness let the Eagles mount several strong comebacks, only to have the cagers score a string of points and pull away again...
...saved face by coaxing no less than Jack Barnaby--generally acknowledged as the greatest squash coach of all time--out of retirement. Often working with inexperienced players on the men's team, Barnaby consistently caught Yale and Princeton by surprise and led his deceiving rag-tag assemblages to a string of national championships...