Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...
...afternoon actually started out with almost perfect rowing conditions as a slight tailwind favored the first two races, both won by Harvard. The second freshmen heavies won the combination race, and then the first-string yardlings won by a length over Princeton in 8:58.4, more than half a minute better than the winning Princeton varsity time...
...Crimson team has run through fifteen matches without tasting defeat. The string should be extended to sixteen straight before the Princeton match, as Columbia has been something less than proficient on the courts this year. However, at Princeton tomorrow afternoon, the situation will be different...
Arthur Freeman has written a poem called "The Short History of Art." After an opening burst of technical terminology, the poem settles down to becoming a string of harmonics which formulate a habit of mind. On the whole, it seems to be more embellishment than formulation...
...rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball game. Eight (Henry Fonda) is a mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney) is a cranky old pensioner, but smart. Ten (Ed Begley) runs a string of garages and spits like a battery syringe whenever the subject of race comes up. Twelve (Robert Webber) is an adman who can't distinguish the truth from a slogan...