Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four weeks Britain had conducted its scuffle-sized war in Oman with the on-again-off-again hesitation of a small boy who has tied one end of the string to his aching tooth, the other to the doorknob...
Penelope Platypus was one of those saucy females who like to keep a male on a string. Cecil Platypus is one of those males. They lived mid the pleasures of their own platypusary in New York's Bronx Zoo, where each had its own little swimming pool and private burrows. And though there was a wooden barrier built between them, Cecil knew how to get around-an achievement fostered by zoo authorities-in season. For outside Tasmania and Australia, these two furry mammals were the only platypuses in captivity, and everybody hoped that one day Cecil and Penelope would...
Puppet on a String. Giuffre's own compositions are written without the aid of an instrument-he just uses "the inner ear." They are often inspired by the green countryside that he and his fellow soloists roll through in their orange-and-brown Volkswagen bus, and written down in odd moments between performances. The results are unusually appealing, sometimes suggesting purposeful musical doodles, sometimes the dance of a rubber-jointed, graceful puppet on a string...
...characters are primitive and romantic, as they probably were in life, and she has a surprising quality of humor. One of her best stories, I Woke Up Wicked, is the tale of an unheroic cowboy who inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine and invader...
...gave free rein to his local publishers-who sometimes showed more concern for the cash register than the crusading journalism for which James Cox stood. (All Cox dailies are Democratic except the pro-Ike Dayton Journal-Herald and Springfield Sun.) Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill, even found time to indulge his second passion, golf...