Word: threading
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...memorize. Instead, he read the book three or four times, then ripped off the binding; "I would take those pages which gave me a jazz-for any reason-and tack them up on the wall. I ended up with perhaps 100 pages which excited me. Then I would thread my continuity between that excitement, frequently changing the general moral tone of the book, or its purpose, to fit that excitement...
...publicized proposals for negotiations leading to a U.S. withdrawal from South Viet Nam inspired an international supposition that the U.S. would actually succumb to such pressure. But President Lyndon Johnson, without saying a public word on the subject, was more determined than ever to remain in Viet Nam-and, thread by thread, to tighten the screw against the Communist aggressors...
...perhaps one more example of the public catching up with revolutionary art. But its technique of multiple exposures bridges the gap between Muybridge's galloping horses and Gjon Mili's stroboscopic studies of dancers. And even Du champ's greatest folly-dropping pieces of thread on the canvas and varnishing them where they fell-dramatized the importance that chance plays in painting, and seems an extraordinarily lucky hunch to a generation familiar with Jackson Pollock's drip paintings...
...resign rather than form a new government on the basis of the election. Then, at the last minute he cancelled the address, and joined a cabinet meeting in search of some form of compromise. But at week's end, Nigeria's unity still hung by a thread...
...decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...