Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things began to go Adlai's way right after Estes Kefauver retired from the presidential race and attached his little red caboose to the end of Stevenson's impressive string of delegate cars (including a few sleepers). After canvassing the 54 delegations bound for the convention (see box), TIME correspondents reported results at week's end that added up to this first-ballot total (with 686½ needed to nominate...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
...second dialogue, for instance, the orchestra (conducted by Howard himself) opened with a blueslike theme on the English horn with accompaniment from the cellos. The combo (Brubeck, Desmond, Bassman Norman Bates and Drummer Joe Dodge) then came in with a heavily accented "discussion" of the theme with orchestral string accompaniment, took off on a series of improvisations without the orchestra, then joined the orchestra again in a written variation on the main theme...
...managed to smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen use up-to-date nylon nets and power their junks with gasoline engines. "The fish in Hong Kong are wise," explained one; "as soon as they see our string nets, they swim away...
Phillips knew what it was doing. With plenty of cash McGee soon had a string of wells in the rich-paying Gulf Coast zone in Louisiana. Then Kerr-McGee started operating on its own in an area where few oilmen had yet ventured: the Louisiana tidelands. Says McGee: "It looked better to us than staying on land, where the first-class spots were already leased and drilled. Some said it took courage. Others just said we were foolish...