Word: strapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orchestra, in spite of their second billing, gave a one-hour demonstration of some of the yet untapped potential of rock. They were introduced to mild applause, and came on stage quietly. McLaughlin, a small man dressed in an Indian cotton shirt, baggy cords and tennis shoes, hefted the strap of his Gibson double-necked guitar over his sloping shoulders. With only a polite smile from McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman arched the bow of his violin high into the air and blasted out the opening run of "The Meeting of the Spirits." The band was as tight as the Dead...
...happens to be a modern day soldier, and you break his strap, what are you gonna do? Give his steel pot back to him...Thrust it severely on top of his head, and put him out of his misery. Easy as that. Again, lower him to the ground, give him a heel stomp, and you're finished with him. Thank you, demonstrator. Give the demonstrator a big hand...
...trading center is the town of Peñas Blancas, a huddle of 50 rickety buildings. There a mining-squad leader spreads out his haul before a family boss who may carry a million pesos (about $50,000) in a shoulder-strap bag. The emeralds are hauled back to Bogota, where many are sold to foreign dealers in back rooms of the dim bars and cafes that line 14th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues. Jewels are smuggled out of the country by two international combines that finance the families' buying trips. Some emeralds leave in the pockets...
...last week that he has assigned patrol gunships on a trial basis to trail the ships that trail his ships. The Asheville-class craft being tested have only 3-in. guns, which can scarcely harass the Soviet ships, and they ride so poorly that the U.S. crewmen have to strap themselves to their stations with safety belts. Still, the Navy hopes eventually to equip them with surface missiles that could pose a serious threat to the Soviet trailers...
...strangely believable. Four midwestern kids head for Los Angeles for the conventional reasons-they find nearly instantaneous fame and fortune, but at the price of orgies, perversions, drug addiction and other box-office attractions. Though stunned by a culture they are not ready to understand ("I'd like to strap you on," is repeated in three conversations, each time to the same dumbfounded guy.) somehow things work...