Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...site of Chicago's International Amphitheatre, all manholes have been sealed with tar. A chain-link fence, seven feet high and topped with barbed wire, is going into place west of the arena. Secret Service men are checking every pipe, seat and rafter against bombs or snipers' hiding places. Taking antiwar demonstrators at their word, Chicago officials are preparing for every possible disruption at next week's Democratic National Convention. In the process, the nation's second largest city is beginning to take on the appearance of a city under siege...
Given this compulsive speeded tempo the Who relish in a wide variety of styles ("They have a nice sense of play' 'a photographer friend remarked) ranging from the chain gang 'Bald Headed Woman' to the baroque Swingles Singers Bach effect on 'Silas Stingy' chanting 'money money money money. . .' in rising and falling strains to harpsichord music...
...service this spring in which members of a local theater workshop, eyes closed and feigning blindness, moved through the pews to be helped along by parishioners' hands. A seminarian at the Chicago Theological Seminary, Kent Schneider, recently designed a service for his own wedding that turned into a chain of personal contact. After kissing each other, both bride and bridegroom kissed another member of the wedding party on the cheek, and the cycle was continued until every person in the church had been bussed...
Mayor Armand Isnard and his villagers were only too happy to oblige, and before long Madame, whose first husband made a fortune on a chain of newsreel cinemas, was lavishing her three boundless resources-romantic enthusiasm, energy and hard cash-on medieval restoration. She trained masons to lay a new roof on the chapel and made them do it over four times to suit her. The castle towers, which Mayor Isnard once threatened to tear down before they tumbled, now jut sturdily into the air. Two massive feudal gates again open and close off the town, and once-buried streets...
Hughes's tender offer to buy 2,000,000 shares in the TV-radio network and theater chain at $74.25 per share was made July 1 when they traded for $58.88. The bundle would have amounted to 39% of outstanding stock and would have presumably led to a shake-up of management and operations of the company, whose TV network lost $17 million last year. ABC management fought the takeover bid, asking for a court injunction and a hearing by the Federal Communications Commission...