Word: collar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First step toward the Moho would be to drill a cone-shaped hole in the sea bottom. The hole would be filled with cement poured down the drill stem and a steel platform fixed in the cement. The rock drill would be passed through this steel collar and turned from the barge. The long drill stem would be flexible enough to allow for the ship's motions...
...feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...
...four tormentors gather around him in seeming viciousness. But a closer look reveals that his assailants are gripped by compassion. Perhaps some of their ornaments are meant to symbolize their incipient conversion from tormentors to believers. For instance, one of the upper figures wears a sheepdog's collar and carries a peasant's staff-signs of protection for the flock. And the old man's leer may be hateful or tearful, but his gentle hand reaches for Christ's in a gesture of sympathy. The ironclad warrior, who is about to jam the huge prongs upon...
Between concerts not long ago, relaxing in his customary soft collar and black velvet neckpiece, he mused: "When I was a very young boy, I prayed to God, 'I am a very bad sinner, and I don't deserve any glory-I don't want to go to heaven. The only thing I ask: Please leave me here.' And now I want to stay here 50 years more...
Bill Wood has captured what he refers to as a "clean cut" following as a result of his Balladeers show on WHRB. (Where it not for the button-down collar on his brightly blue shirt he could have passed for a fugitive from Grand Ole Opry.) Miss Baez with her long black hair and soft brown eyes has a following more prone to beards and souls and such. But both singers share a professional stage presence and a delightful sense of humor. They combined to present an evening of folksongs "legitimate and illegitimate" that was always enjoyable and oftimes moving...