Word: rimmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neil's short pop shot over eight minutes before. The Terriers scrambled to get the ball in play, but Johnson got his long arms in the way, stole the ball, and hit Grate who flipped in a three-foot turn-around. The ball trickled in over the front rim, and now it was B.U. calling for time. Eight seconds left...
...Jealous Rim Shots. Best of them all, says Simon, was Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...
Dorsey raided other bands so mercilessly that one rival, Joe Marsala, wired him: "How about giving me a job in your band so I can play with mine?" Egos clashed within the ranks-Drummer Rich jealously shattered Sinatra's romantic numbers with noisy rim shots until Sinatra exploded and tossed a full water pitcher at him. The touchiest ego of all belonged to the quick-tempered, perfectionist leader. Arrogant, yet gregarious, shrewd at finance, yet at times childlike and yearning for a less complicated life, Dorsey was one of the most powerful and enigmatic personalities...
Bundy also stated, according to student participants, that the United States is not only fighting in Vietnam to prevent a third world war as his brother had stated three months earlier, but that the future welfare of 250 million people on the rim of Southeast Asia was also at stake...
Sugar & Stone. Before long, Kroyer was off on his own. Noting the wartime shortage of elastic, he invented an ingenious substitute of wire and thread, sold it to Danish textilemakers for $15,000. A flood of gizmos followed-bicycle rim linings made of woven paper, which bike-happy Danes found would save wear on tires, paper hammocks, one of the first pressure cookers to appear in Europe, even a skillet with special grease-catching depressions to improve frying of steaks. That lowly item has been cooking up brisk sales in Denmark and seven other countries for more than 15 years...