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Word: string (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good night, Luke Hunsberger breaks at least two guitar strings during a five hour performance at Holyoke Center. Each time one pops, he stops his strumming, sometimes says a word or two and pauses for a couple of minutes to fix the string...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Luke and the Power of His Force | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

David Baker (12 string guitar) -- Baker chooses the quieter spots along Brattle St. to play mostly his own music, which he merely describes as "acoustic wizardry...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Popping Strings For Profit | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...need something with a little more power." On this technological subject, he went so far as to suggest that West German Boris ("Boom-Boom") Becker, 17, the spectacular find of the tournament, was a souped-up shortcutter without a solid wooden foundation. But zing is more than string. McEnroe also had to admit, "I felt a little old out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fire Over Ice, in Three Sets | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...string of thefts from the second floor bathroom of Weld Hall, three women are suspected of stealing $83 worth of cosmetics. The thefts, which include two curling irons and a bottlerof shampoo, occured Saturday between 2 and 4 p.m., according to police records...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Police Blotter | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

Along Harlem's 125th Street, the main artery of what was once the heart and soul of black America, a group of embittered black protesters demonstrates against the string of tidy Korean shops that now almost dominate the thoroughfare. In Miami, native blacks are beginning to feel like spurned foreigners as ambitious Cubans give the city a Latin rhythm and take over what were once bastions of black business. On the grim concrete playgrounds of Powelton Village in West Philadelphia, black children call their Asian classmates "chinks" and "gooks." The Asians, quick learners all, call the blacks "spooks" and "niggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blacks Resentment Tinged with Envy | 7/8/1985 | See Source »

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