Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullhorn, and that annoyed Janis. "Listen," she shouted, "I know there won't be any trouble if you'll just leave!" The officers refused and sounded the horn again. That did it. Janis, as a fan reported, "simply went nuts," blistering the air with a string of oaths and obscenities, whereupon the cops hustled her off to jail on charges of using profanity and indecent language. Free on bail, the queen of hyperthyroid blues insisted: "I say anything I want onstage. I don't mind getting arrested because I've turned a lot of kids...
...delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across the last patches of blue in the Florida sky; a drizzling rain turned into a heavy downpour that virtually blotted pad 39A from view. But NASA officials, buoyed by a long string of space successes, were undaunted by the dangerous omens. The order was given to proceed. More reliable than any commuter train, the 11:22 moon rocket departed from Cape Kennedy. It was on schedule to the split second...
Although the orchestra does have specific shortages-only one string bass, and four violas where they need nine-HRO plans to give three concerts this fall...
Bryan Marini started the season as Brown's established quarterback and one of the team's most dependable players. But the Bruins' quarterback situation turned out to be as shaky as Penn's and Harvard's and Burgess, third string at the season's start, was put in against Princeton November...
...coffins on the big platform and I started to really concentrate. I tried to think about what this whole procedure had meant. We were told to rip the cards from the string around our necks. So I carried this card in my hand and stared at the coffin where I was to dispose of Tinsley Bryant...