Word: singe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sing Sing the prison barker called out "All men who came Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Mr. Whitney please step out of their cells!" and fellow convicts as well as guards asked for his autograph. He distinguished himself on the baseball and football teams and the prison psychiatrist reported that Whitney never showed the slightest signs of self-criticism. His brother made good on all his debts and after his release from prison in 1941, Whitney lived a comfortable, secluded life...
...during the early thirties, which may have ruined nearly as many small investors as the Great Crash itself, but for stealing money from the New York Yacht Club. The closed circle of the financial elite were willing to forgive Whitney almost anything but stealing from the Yacht Club meant Sing Sing and an end to his membership on Harvard's Ec department Visiting Committee...
...Well, that was fine, but there was nothing distinctive about them except that they were uncorrupted and the best. Duane Allman might have been the finest white guitarist alive, but he was at heart a sideman, and often his brilliant work would get lost because his brother Gregg was singing. Gregg couldn't sing worth shit, but his voice had a sixties edge to it, a hint of hostility, which made it take over when it rose...
...restore economic health to the Met, whose deficit is expected to be $9 million this year. On the pop scene, attendance at rock concerts promoted by Howard Stein Enterprises has fallen 25% to 40% below that of a year ago. Elton John is one of the few who still sing to S.R.O...
Then they started, a hundred thousand strong, to sing the songs of Mikis Theodorakis. Beaming and exuberant as he led the singing, the once exiled composer said, "The people have won. We have proved once more that we are stronger. They have tanks. We have ide als and songs." There were calls for se vere punishment of the arrested leaders of the junta, and countless banners proclaiming CIA AND NATO-BETRAYERS...