Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five days the landing craft thrashed across the rough waters between transports and the muddy beaches. First loaded were the islands' 14,500 civilians. They swarmed down the treeless slopes, each labeled with a white cloth tag, shoes tied onto feet with string to keep them from pulling off in the ankle-deep mud. Each carried a pathetic bundle of possessions-straw bedding, aluminum kitchenware, a canteen or blackened teakettle, and (almost invariably) a rose-patterned chamber pot. Few seemed sad at leaving their cold, wind-whipped islands...
Cash Before the Crash. Hirshhorn, who got his start as a Wall Street market tipster and trader, got out of the market with $4,000,000 just before the 1929 crash. For more than 20 years he has commuted between Manhattan and Toronto, has set up a string of more than two dozen Canadian mining and oil companies. In 1950 New York State's Attorney General Goldstein warned investors against buying shares in American-Canadian Uranium Co., which was backed by Pax Athabasca Uranium Mines. Ltd., a Hirshhorn interest (TIME, Dec. 4, 1950), because the promoters were making...
...freshman hockey team won its first shut-out of the year yesterday, defeating Natick High School, 10-0. This extended its winning string to 15. High scores wore Bob Cleary, Bob McVey, and Ed Owen, with two apiece...
Wagner's Siegfried Idyll demonstrated fine woodwind playing, but it suffered from some insecure string intonation and from a general inflexibility unsuited to this music of warm and affectionate caresses...
...flounder's eyes pop out of its head and seem to walk around, as nervous and irritable as two monkeys on an organ-grinder's string...