Word: connect
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...some decades if I don't overestimate) the Band devotes its halftime shows to current events, each time attempting to connect such events with what they consider appropriate tunes and formation of letters. The results have been an almost uninterrupted series of flops. People listen a little, fail to recognize or connect the tunes, get bored, and start up conversations in the stands. A subdued roar is the collective result. Gradually this increases until at the end of the show one can scarcely hear the announcer and literally no one is paying the band the slightest attention. This...
Charles Manly III practices law in Grinnell, Iowa (pop. 8,700), a town without a law library, so he pays $425 a month to connect his CPT word processor to Westlaw, a legal data base in St. Paul. Just now he needs precedents in an auto insurance case. He dials the Westlaw telephone number, identifies himself by code, then types: "Courts (Iowa) underinsurance." The computer promptly tells him there is only one such Iowa case, and it is 14 years old. Manly asks for a check on other Midwestern states, and it gives him a long list of precedents...
...cagers had been able to rise above their frustration with the officiating and connect on more than 11 of their 29 free throws, then Harvard would have tested its hosts Defensively, the Crimson shut off the Quakers usually successful fast break, while on offense, the hoopsters outscored the Quakers 50-36 from the floor...
First-half play action was limited to the midfield, with the Crimson's Mike Mogollon working several give-and-go-play with Captain Lance Ayrault Harvard forwards spent much of the half trying to connect with their back line, as UMass cut off passing angles from the Crimson end. Both teams suffered obvious tripping and shoving fouls, which the referee neglected to call...
...lawyers are claiming that without the deleted language they cannot approve the settlement terms. I call Anthony Solomon, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and ask him to instruct his attorneys to sign the agreement. He is at home. We connect him through State Department radiotelephone circuits to his lawyers in Algiers...