Word: tiring
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...Negro spiritual set to march time. "Jazz," he said, is a differently accented ragtime with more opportunity for improvisation and "swing" is a somewhat arranged and toned down jazz. He traced the origin of jazz and swing to the changing tastes of the public who, he said, tire of the previous style after a while...
Time to Re-Tire. A Dixon, Calif. newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires...
...Rubber. Profitwise, the No. 1 surprise was rubber. After booming 1941, tire makers were hard hit by the shortage in crude. Then followed the intricate, trouble-studded job of turning out a host of new products, with tricky synthetics. But Goodyear's Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield now revealed that volume had soared a resounding 68% during 1943. Profits had tagged along, ending up at $21,479,000 ($8.94 a share) v. 1942's $14,371,000. Percentagewise, U.S. Rubber did even better with...
...drastically screwed down tire rationing, shifted the rationing basis from mileage to essential occupations...
...second scene two picadores on padded horses take turns inviting the bull to charge them. When he does, they stick their lances in the bull's neck muscles and try to hold him off so that he cannot get at horse or man. (Object: to tire the bull's neck muscles so that he lowers his head in charging, exposing the spot which the matador must hit to kill him.) Next, the peones (or sometimes the matador) place three pairs of beribboned darts in the bull's hump (object: to excite the bull and keep him lively...