Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first number was Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and the quartet that played it -- Marsha Hinch, Myrna Paulis, Darlene Ferris and Mary Stokes -- played it without a hitch. There was no metronome in evidence, but you could get the count by watching their chins and brows. Next Marsha and Myrna played Greensleeves. Then Mary Rathman, a seriously accomplished pianist and mother of eight children, played a Debussy prelude and two Chopin etudes. Her hands flew. Lois Crabtree and Chris McClue played a rhapsody, Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul. Charlie Hinch had a rough start on The Oak Grove...
...call. The subsidized price of a large loaf of bread is about 2 cents. But for the majority of Egyptians, whose per capita income is $600 a year, subsidies are just enough to keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts earn less than $10 a month, on which many of them must support families. In 1977, when former President Anwar Sadat tried to cut food subsidies, widespread rioting almost brought down his government. "We learned from the lesson...
There's one hitch. The drinking age in Massachusetts is 21, and it's widely enforced, both in Cambridge and on the Harvard campus. But if you've got a picture I.D. that indicates the proper age, you shouldn't have a problem taking advantage of Cambridge night life...
...what will be a temporary increase in supplies, but ranchers say that the short-term impact is proving to be severe. Nor are they comforted to know that dairy cattle produce low-quality meat, which cannot compare with tastier ranch beef. "Any extra tonnage is bad," says Paul Hitch, owner of a major feedlot in Guymon, Okla. "If a million cut-rate Chevies come on the market, even Cadillac is going to lose some sales...
...experiment proceeded without a hitch, according to The Crimson, proving that "people can study for Harvard degrees in a heterosexual library." However, the Library Committee duly kicked the women out again when the two weeks were over, and they said nothing about letting women in again...