Word: cords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have not yet cut the umbilical cord binding them to traditions that were old when Stanley presumed he had met Livingstone...
Instead he hurried home, stripped off his oxford shirt, rep tie, and cord suit, and dressed in his oldest dungarees, T-shirt, and battered loafers. Later that afternoon, posing as a boy just out of high school, he landed a $65-a-week job with a construction company. Nine weeks later, having made his $600, this young fellow quit his job and put his tie back...
...dream house against trespassers. Inside the pantry he set up a loaded .22-cal. pistol. Only the tip of the barrel protruded from the paneling, pointed at the level of a man's heart toward the pantry door. From the hidden trigger, the captain connected a piece of cord to the door handle and completed his booby trap...
Young Rosewall fought back through a fine last set. But now, for the first time in eleven tries at Wimbledon, Old Drob was running into luck. Low drives that hit the net cord dropped in for him, high lobs kicked up chalk on the baseline and his big service took on a wallaby's hop. With the score at 8-7, Drobny smacked across an ace on a second serve. The final point was an ace as well...
Plastic Surgeon Kiskadden urged his colleagues to warn parents of an equally potent but less obvious danger: the hollow-chamber type of appliance plug used with many vacuum cleaners, toasters, coffeepots and most irons. Even when the appliance is disconnected, the other end of the cord is often left plugged into the wall outlet. In eight years at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, he and Dr. Sanford R. Dietrich have seen 16 children, mostly under three, with severe electrical burns of the mouth. These, said Dr. Kiskadden, "are almost always caused by putting a live plug...