Word: washboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first modern divided-lane highway in all Russia, thousands of Muscovites swarmed out on the inaugural day to have a look. Most of the spectators came on foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand-new roadbed. Even Premier Nikita Khrushchev had his driver take him out for a run around the circuit in his sleek Chaika limousine. Acknowledging the cheers of bystanders, Khrushchev paused to congratulate officials, urged them to put up some restaurants and motels along...
...white crash helmet and goggles, New Hampshire's round-cheeked, chunky Penny Pitou, 21, was the first skier to jab her poles into the snow and set off. Penny plummeted through the schuss, hit the bump at such a speed that she was forced to the washboard surface on the outside of the turn. For one frantic second, she tottered on one ski, then recovered control to flash home...
...stage were six nimble young men in dinner jackets, and strewed around them were more than a hundred percussion instruments-including a horse's jawbone, six water-buffalo bells, eight auto brake drums, a corrugated washboard and a set of bongo drums. When the conductor raised his baton, the young men moved on an assortment of weapons and started to flail away. The effect was like an explosion in a boiler factory. The occasion: an all-percussion concert at New York's Manhattan School of Music, under the direction of Veteran Percussionist Paul Price...
...blonde, blue-eyed Actress Virginia Payne has never missed a performance, stands loyally by the washboard weepers. "Radio is a companion and these characters are friends to millions of lonely people," she says in a soft, nasal voice. "It is not supposed to be a pretentious art form. It is not Aristotelian with beginnings, middles and endings, but a series of situations and characters that must extend and develop over great periods of time. Our critics are people who do not stay with us." Although key telegrams are still delivered on the Friday program and opened on Monday, Actress Payne...
Pseudonyms ranged from "Washboard Sam" to "Elmirsemirfermir Moustapha pasha" to the more obscure...