Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Camillo, the faithless ones who had voted for the party of atheism were busy with preparations for the season's No. 1 feast, the celebration of Corpus Christi. It was the annual great event in many a village like Vingone. Children scoured the hillsides searching for flowers to string into garlands for the streets. Mothers sewed on fancy-dress costumes for the procession of the Eucharist through the streets, while their husbands wielded paintbrush and hammer on the decorations. And lilting in every heart in the village was the thought of the wining, dining and dancing that would follow...
First-class journalists, they quickly learn the ground rules for a good TIME story. Proof of this is in the adjoining masthead, which is heavily sprinkled with the names of former string correspondents, including about half the senior editors...
...Hits, No Errors. The Department of Justice filed 22 criminal actions against 42 individuals in six states as a result of the drive. Last week the FDA scored six hits, winning pleas of guilty from defendants who drew fines or jail terms. These ran its string to 17 victories without a single defeat, left only five cases to go. One who drew a $500 fine and a year's jail sentence (suspended) was the Charlotte gas-station operator who sold to the teenager...
...might have gone into the record books as one of those special days-but the homer-hitters kept right on connecting. After letting his record string of home runs in successive games run out at eight, the Pirates' First Baseman Dale Long came back four days later and banged out his 15th of the season. The Yankees' Centerfielder Mickey Mantle, his batting average running well above .400, hit his 19th and 20th - and two days later the Yanks were punished in kind by a grand-slam belt off the bat of Detroit's Leftfielder Bob Kennedy...
...best modern violins have all the qualities of a fine Strad: instant response, no dead spots in the range from bottom to top, no perceptible difference in quality from string to string, a potentially sweet, powerful tone, and visual beauty. Despite all this, fiddlers often will not like the finished instruments, or if they do, they may not play them in public. Explained