Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...practices. Prohibitive and therefore restrictive rates were never intended by the founding fathers when they set up the postal system. Its mission, they felt, was not to make money but to facilitate the diffusion of information throughout the young republic. That nation-building charter, said George Washington, was to bind "these people to us with a chain that can never be broken." Since then Congress has reaffirmed the principle as a national purpose...
...Bradley, LL.D., mayor of Los Angeles. You bind rifts in the fabric of your city, disproving Yeats' apocalyptic vision that "the center cannot hold...
...East Los, the message that comes through is pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals as part of their history lessons...
...only toward the sound a voice produces rather than to the voice and the person who owns it. "Singers come out of his concerts hoarse." Adams is a "very talented conductor" and his concerts sound "spectacular," but during the year she was in Collegium he made no efforts to bind the group. Her own efforts as a conductor are directed toward creating a rapport with her cast and orchestra. "I enjoy the leading." If she had to act or sing on stage, she says. "I'd get stage fright," but "when I come out to conduct and the spotlight...
...straw so that it can be unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet...