Word: washboards
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...anything.”Hopkins, meanwhile, was not afraid to wear the yellow disaster for the first full week of the year, on a bet from Breaux.Fashion sense will be more necessary when Hopkins finally leads his “band,” the “Washboard Whatups,” on its first tour. The band is the child of summer football workouts. A summer lifting group of Breaux, senior quarterback Liam O’Hagan, and Hopkins, started using the nickname in lifting competitions held to break the monotony of offseason workouts...
Sources of stress can include broader influences, such as the social pressure to maintain a “washboard stomach” or terrorism threats since September 11th, according to the study. Cultural labels—such as “stay-at-home mom,” “retired,” or “laid-off”—may stereotype individuals and also cause them further stress...
...prize was a new Speed Queen washing machine. When the station found out she was black, Wilson recounts, his mother was offered instead a certificate for a used washing machine from the Salvation Army. Friends told her to take it anyway; it was better than the old washboard she was using to scrub her kids' clothes. But she refused. "Something," she said, "is not always better than nothing...
...stage. They weren’t quite through until just before 9 p.m. Last Tuesday, in Avalon’s smoky, dimly lit Ballroom, 1,300 fans waited and watched good-naturedly as several guitars, African talking drums, maracas, a penny whistle, Tibetan finger cymbals, a mandolin, a Cajun washboard, a djembe and a myriad of other instruments appeared onstage. Mellow Beatles covers provided background noise as excited groupies mulled about, unruffled by the delay and fraught with anticipation. When the band finally made their way onstage, the audience was assaulted by a frenzy of percussion and a primal howling...
...John Buynak switched from mandolin to penny whistle to tom-toms, Liz Berlin alternated from cowbells to electric guitar to a tin washboard and the textures of the night’s sounds became increasingly richer. The only constant in the show, besides Glabicki’s unique vocals, was bassist Patrick Norman. His dynamic playing was interrupted only briefly when he switched to drums for one piece, but his euphoric grin was an enjoyable thread running through a shape-shifting performance...