Word: threading
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Once again, poetry, her own and that if others, was the thread that tied her to humanity. Poetry served her also when she was reunited with her younger son Vasya. (Her elder had died of hunger after her arrest...
...first four months of the year, 51 stabbings were reported in "Jacktown," but there undoubtedly were more. Some prisoners have become skilled at stitching up cuts, often with plain needle and thread; prisoners are afraid to report assaults, lest they be singled out as snitchers...
Americans in the mid-1970s winced through Watergate, the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. foreign bribery case, corporate indictments for illegal campaign contributions and seemingly endless scandals involving the FBI, CIA or IRS. On the theory that secrecy was the thread linking corruption, and full disclosure was the sword to cut it, Congress between 1974 and 1977 created the Federal Election Commission, broadened the Freedom of Information Act and toughened the ethics and disclosure laws for federal appointees. Corporations were compelled to record and disclose anything that might be construed as a bribe. The FBI and CIA were restricted, especially with respect...
...first five minutes of overtime. Crimson backs Kip Mackenzie and Sabin Willet broke the two longest runs of the game and almost provided Harvard with the national title. Following Mackenzie's run and subsequent kick, one California player said that the Bears "were only hanging on by a thread...
...card on each one, with a photograph of the student on it. His comments range from "very good" to "turkey." His own job, he says, "is to turn people on, to make them want to learn." He is wearing, as he speaks, a blue necktie ornamented in gold thread with the words Waffle House...