Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continue on their way to or from rebel-held Menado. The planes reportedly had Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats and the new posture of cordial friendship between the U.S. and the Indonesian government of President Sukarno has had its effect: not a single Menado-bound plane has landed at Zamboanga since...
...your left shoulder." He looked up, saw the sinker gliding past his head in slow motion, bided his time and coolly upped the plane's nose. The movement dropped the sinker gently into his lap. As he passed it back, he also gave me a short piece of string, with an invitation...
...addition to these two records, Landau set a new indoor 60-yard high hurdles mark of :07.3 seconds, breaking the old mark of :07.4, and he added the 220-yard dash record to his string by running a 21.0 against Army. By way of completing his dossier, Landau has also run a :09.8 100, which would have tied the Harvard mark, but that, too, was disallowed because of a trailing wind...
...Pierce say that he had netted $118,775 from the sale of five yachts, given some of the money directly to the New York CAP, invested the rest in a Manhattan building-and-loan association and an airplane sale and rental business in Linden, N.J. He still had a string of unsold yachts and $15,500 in cash, which he offered to the Miami CAP as compensation for having solicited gifts in its territory...
...Illinois state's attorney's office, the Cook County sheriff and even the Chicago police took up the search for the arsonists, but Chicago newspapers, well aware that Chicago police have yet to solve a single one of a string of restaurant bombings and burnings stretching back to 1950. were skeptical. "If investigators ... do no more than to go through the motions of making an inquiry." editorialized the Sun-Times, "other racketeers will only be emboldened to resort to similar methods in an effort to silence prospective witnesses in court cases as well as in congressional hearings." Added...