Word: plucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...
...recently sounded the death knell of his own brand of blues: "They ain't no more of our kids comin' up. They been havin' too good a time." Jimi Hendrix, whose recording this is, learned guitar from Muddy Waters records, but Muddy never taught him to pluck the strings with his teeth or elbows. Wild as his act is onstage, Hendrix on this LP sings lyrics that are at times as delicate as Donovan's, and his blues are just one stripe in a rainbow of euphonious effects...
First, in most cases, came the teenagers, already milling on the crowded curbs. Once windows began to shatter and the bolder youngsters reached through the shards to pluck out plunder, the party was on. Next came the followers, still mostly teen-agers and men in their twenties. New York City's deputy police commissioner Jacques Nevard estimated that 80% of his area's looters were under 21, fully half 16 or under...
...another drink," he said. "I just couldn't believe my ears." Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen bitterly noted that the "personal and sometimes ugly" criticism of the President by his fellow Democrats helped drive him to his decision. Said Dirksen: "The harpies of the shore shall pluck the eagle...
...White House Rose Garden, he hailed her as "someone who has helped us with the gold drain." Peggy had, indeed, as the only American to bring home an Olympic gold medal from Grenoble. And now a properly appreciative L.B.J. added a decoration of his own, reaching up to pluck a magnolia blossom from a tree and pinning it on Peggy's dress...