Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ivies do not tale on primary importance for a while. As the netwomen zero in on regional hegemony this fall, they should pile up the laurels along the way. This is one Crimson autumn team that will surely bring a string of victories back to Cambridge...
...prosperity is found in cities as diverse as tiny North Berwick, Me., home of a new Pratt & Whitney jet-engine-parts plant, and old New Haven, Conn., where G & O Manufacturing Co. is building a new $5 million automotive radiator factory. The most glittering showcase is the string of high-technology companies ringing Boston on the Route 128 beltway led by giants like Polaroid, Raytheon and Itek. Massachusetts' 300 hi-tech firms now employ 150,000 workers...
...habits of every member of the Senate. He had a grand way of picking his nose, scratching himself and eating food off other people's plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J. whipped a jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many...
This Richard is not only fond of song but also of instrumental music. In one amusing scene, he insists on having a string quartet brought in to play the scherzo from Beethoven's Op. 131; we hear the music on tape, but the musicians use real bows to play on imaginary instruments. Elsewhere, Richard will not allow discourse to proceed until a keyboard piece has concluded, or until a trio of dancers has finished its ballet...
Whatever their enthusiasm, many of the tourists in my group turned out to have wrestled with the problem of the U.S. boycott. Some had emotional reasons for deciding to come-a string of consecutive Olympics going back to Mexico or Japan (they wore tinkling commemorative pins on their hats to prove it) that no presidential edict (even if they thought well of it) was going to break. A trial lawyer from Washington, D.C., told me that he was in Moscow because he had never seen an Olympics and he could not bear the idea of waiting four years...