Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tornado struck directly at Burnett's Mound. Then, in contrast with the hop-and-skip progression of most twisters, it furrowed an almost machine-straight path two to four blocks wide through the heart of the city and into the northeastern suburbs. Houses were blown into rubble, cars blasted into junk. All but one of the 18 major buildings at Washburn University, several of them with heavy stone walls, were destroyed or seriously damaged...
Like any aspiring singer, Mrs. Elva Miller has had to struggle to be heard. In her case, though, the struggle has been going on for most of her 58 years. When she was a child, people were forever telling her to knock off the singing and please go skip rope or something. But she persevered, joined the high school glee club and the church choir, later studied voice for seven years at Pomona College. Still, whenever she tuned up, people tended to drift out of earshot, and friends politely suggested that maybe please she should take up knitting or something...
...rallied 131 points in the final hour of trading, closing at 903. Actually, General Motors said only that its plants would work Monday but was obscure about whether they would work full weeks. Later, G.M. said that eight of its assemby plants, rather than the previously announced four, will skip between one day's and three days' work before the end of this month...
...more prominent billing than the one afforded him: He has been forced to reach deep into his bag of tricks, coming up with virtually every phoney-baloney recording studio technique of goosing one non-existent voice and twelve non-existent melody lines into a passable record. The resulting styles skip from Chinese to Calypso, by way of a plethora of hoked-up Folk Rock, and the one catchy tune, Bamiba, turns out to be an old Kingston Trio favorite, complete with only slightly altered lyrics. This theft, I must add, is in the best tradition of militant songsters the world...
...most obvious indication that the team has improved is that Shepard will have his two top pitchers and five of his eight starters back from last year. Gone are shortstop Tom Bilodeau, second baseman Skip Falcone, and catcher Gary Miller, all good defensive players but only fair hitters...