Word: accordion
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...British longshoreman blew 192 smoke rings from a single cigarette puff. A civil servant played his accordion nonstop for 26 hours and 20 minutes. One 15-year-old gulped down 19 pickled onions in two minutes. They were all contestants in Cosmorama, a Screwball Olympics held in Lingfield, England, where the equivalent of a gold was winning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. The show's Bruce Jenner was Tory Roy Hatter, 25, vice chairman of the Young Conservatives and new holder of the world record for nonstop political speeches...
...Tientsin, 90 miles away, former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was rudely awakened in his suite on the eighth floor of his hotel, a new building of modern design, when it began shaking "like an accordion." As he and his wife Margaret hurried down the stairs to the safety of the street, the hotel began whipping back and forth, as she put it, "in a way that suggested it was deciding whether or not to topple. All of us were thinking, 'My God, this has gone on long enough...
...Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First the prow with two baleful headlights looms in the dusk. Then, in accordion fashion, the rest of the ship spills into being like a black dragon. It is a breath-catching moment...
...slim blue brochure that falls open like an accordion to reveal a thumbnail photo on each of its rectangular faces (among these are Bok, the chair's namesake George Seferis and an ancient Greek coin labeled "The Cost") was printed this summer. Apparently, that's about the extent of Harvard's participation in the campaign for funds. When asked if the University Development Office was actively arranging for the chair, Charles D. Thompson '48 replied that "actively is a funny word; my office is handling a lot of programs at this point" and conceded that, unlike with other programs...
...party was the entrance of Amin, ensconced in a sedan chair toted by four otherwise staid British businessmen who live in Uganda; Big Daddy's 280-lb. bulk, it was jokingly explained, was now "the white man's burden." Amin squeezed out a few tunes on an accordion to entertain his guests and proudly showed off a presidential menagerie that included a crocodile, an ostrich, a leopard and a chimpanzee...