Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snapped String. In the finals, which matched him against eight other pianists -including three top-rated Russians and another American, Los Angeles' Daniel Pollack, 23-the good-looking young Texan chose to play Rachmaninoff's powerful Concerto No. 3. As required of all finalists, he also played Tchaikovsky's familiar First and a rondo by Soviet Composer (and contest judge) Dmitry Kabalevsky, who wrote it for the contest...
Despite a bandaged index finger (which he had cut during a grueling rehearsal), Cliburn displayed the tautly controlled technique, the steel-fingered power and booming romantic style that had dazzled audiences in the opening rounds. Toward the end of the rondo, a piano string snapped under his bold percussive attack. He piled through the rest of the piece without faltering, rose after the final Rachmaninoff to one of the most thunderous ovations ever accorded an artist in Moscow...
...funny porous thing Hanging by a bit of string Ever there from fall to spring Decorating Hollis Hall. Copey, Copey, don't you remember Where you left it last December Or have you become a member Of the never wash...
...dining hall was crowded and there was apparently no place else to sit so he slipped into the remaining empty chair at a corner table with an apologetic nod. He ate slowly and methodically, first a forkful of potatoes, then a bit of meat, then to string beans and then back to potatoes and start all over...
...first string midfielders will be Dick Parks, Dave Birch, and Karl Bjork, with Manuel Cabral, John Gould, and Jerry Cotter ready to take over when the starters tire. The attackmen will be Dub Mallonee, Jerry Pyle, and either Fran Loewald or Nick Lamont...