Word: strapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public since the cultural revolution. Heads snapped, therefore, when Chiang Ching, who is also Mrs. Mao Tse-tung and No. 3 in the Politburo, appeared at the floodlit Sino-U.S. basketball game in Peking wearing a well-tailored gray midi with white sandals and a white shoulder-strap bag. The Americans won 89 to 59. But Mrs. Mao, dazzling in her nonuniform and seated next to American Envoy David Bruce, had scored the most points...
...just before the Preakness. A TV crew does not faze him. Recently, while a handler was being interviewed, Secretariat calmly began to nibble on the microphone on the off chance that it was edible. Once, while the horse was being led to stable by Groom Ed Sweat, the leather strap broke off in Sweat's hand. A stallion on the loose can be a perilous thing. Were his people scared? "You can say that again," recalls Laurin. But Secretariat merely stopped and waited for Sweat to grab the halter. "He wasn't going anywhere," says the groom...
...remained on his feet for 31 minutes, his voice growing stronger as he spoke. He wore no braces. The only support in his "standing box" was a strap across his lower back. He made no explicit reference to running for re-election next year, but he did not have to. He talked about being "thrilled by the prospects lying ahead" and used the line of the Yankee poet Robert Frost about having "promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep...
Another argument against mandatory joint concentration is, once again, from my own personal experience. Joint concentration may result in a waste of valuable time. The combined requirements for joint concentration strap the student into a rigorous schedule with very little time for elective work. Joint concentration is a choice, and a choice that should be left up to the individual concentrator...
Arrowsmith shoetique both the prices (which range to $65) and the heels are high. Hip young customers spend $46 for navy blue lace-ups with silver piping and big silver stars on the sides, or $47 for strap shoes with 2-in. heels that look exactly like the Mary Janes worn by Shirley Temple and generations of other little girls. One elderly Arrowsmith customer plunked down $65 for knee-high fire-engine-red boots with floppy tops and 2-in. heels. He turned out to be a lion tamer...