Word: shanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shank & Three Trombones (Pacific Jazz LP). Further adventures of West Coast jazzmen in their new instrumental colors. This one features plush sounds that should please even the cats who do not quite dig Saxophonist Shank. Titles: Valve in Head, Cool Fool, Wailing Vessel...
...night the events were even more closely spaced. Some saw the Student Players' production of "Harvey" Friday night and attended the Glee Club Concert on Saturday night. Others switched the order, or substituted a basketball game. Whatever they were doing at 9 o'clock, by the shank of the evening, the crowds were bound to be safely would about a drink and a date at a fraternity or dormitory party. In fact, some omitted the cultural and athletic attractions altogether...
...stands in Texas, gone sardine fishing off the coast of Maine, reported Danish markets, shopped Les Halles in Paris, donned a sou'wester at 3:30 a.m. to see how mackerel are caught off Long Island. She sometimes ladles out such unembellished advice as "remember lamb breast and shank today" or "snap beans are a vegetable buy," and always provides basic food facts on price, quality, recipes and tastes for everyone from the meat-and-potato man to the high-living gourmet. But mushrooms are not just mushrooms in her column, they are likely to be "pixie umbrellas...
...search for the source of the Orinoco River has long been a favorite obsession among explorers of South America's jungles. The jaundiced waters of the third largest river in South America sprawl across the breadth of Venezuela like a gigantic fishhook. The shank fans out into a delta just below Trinidad. The barb is buried far to the southwest, deep in the tangled wilderness of the Parima Mountains. For the past four centuries adventurers and scientists have hunted its headwaters...
...Stiff, formal Captain Harry Crook-shank, 58, a Tory whose shiny top hat, worn in the House of Commons, enrages Labor backbenchers, became Leader of the House. Anthony Eden had originally got the job, but decided that he couldn't do right by it and be Foreign Secretary too. Crookshank, as Minister of Health, will also run the socialized health service...