Word: perches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began to roll off the assembly line after World War II. For several centuries prior to this technological watershed, caddies lugged troughs of wet sand slung around their necks. The golfer tapped a spot with his driver head and the caddie molded a pinch of sand on which to perch the ball...
...Lorber faces a popular ex-Governor. TENNESSEE. James Sasser (D) v. Incumbent Bill Brock (R): Brock could go on to bigger things-but he has to beat Sasser first and is trailing. VIRGINIA. Elmo Zumwalt (D) v. Incumbent Harry Byrd (Independent): Admiral Zumwalt is a tough salt, but this perch has been for the Byrds since...
...when he allows his highly emotional commitment to this project to show, one cannot help but hope the film's second half lives up to the promise of the first half, cannot help hoping no one shoots him from his perch atop the dream edifice he has constructed. "No one cry when Jaws die," Dino says, his voice rising in passion as he develops his theme. "But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. Intellectuals gonna love Kong; even film buffs who love the first Kong gonna love ours. Why? Because I no give them crap. I no spend...
...wall of water hurtled down the canyon, a wailing and moaning wind preceded it along the Big Thompson. When the water began to rise, Helen Hill, who is in her mid-fifties, scrambled to a perch five limbs up on a ponderosa pine and later that night watched the flood in a series of flickering still lifes illuminated by lightning. "I saw poor Mrs. Greeley-84, she is-go down the river. And I could hear the cabins around us go. They sounded like the lid of a wooden apple box being pried...
...plastic bag is tied over the victim's head to deprive him of oxygen. In the Grill, the victim is stretched out face up on a metal frame while a "massage" of shocks is delivered to various parts of the body. A Brazilian invention called the Parrot's Perch is used in many countries; it consists of a horizontal stick from which the prisoner is hung by the knees, with hands and ankles tied together. Another common technique, called the Telephone, consists of delivering sharp blows to both ears simultaneously, which often causes excruciatingly painful rupture of the ear drums...