Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sarah McClendon, who represents a string of Texas newspapers, has made a career of battle-axing Washington politicians during press conferences. Last week she asked House Speaker John McCormack some especially blunt questions about his relationship with Nathan Voloshen, who used the Speaker's office to peddle considerable influence around Washington. As the meeting broke up, McCormack, 77, the Speaker for five years and a Congressman for 41 years, walked beside McClendon saying, almost plaintively: "I'm clean, Sarah. I've always been clean. You know that. I'm clean, Sarah...
...shutout string dissolved in the third period, when Meyers was beaten on a long free kick. And although after the second period Harvard was never in any real danger of losing. Penn was bringing out the best in the Crimson with an aggressive, long-kicking game that gave the fullbacks plenty of business. Long kicks will rarely defeat a strong opponent, especially if he is playing a 4-3-3 defense. But Penn was almost forced into that strategy by the Harvard front line, with Gomez and Thomas continually threatening to break loose on the wing...
...settling down in their lavish surroundings, both students and faculty inevitably indulged in less serious gripes. Even the perfection of the soundproofing upsets musicians grown accustomed to the cozy cacophony of the old building. Violinist Robert Mann of the Juilliard String Quartet, for instance, finds the quiet somewhat disquieting. "I like distant musical sounds; it reminds me I'm in a conservatory." Told that a student had complained because "the library is too comfortable; I can't take notes there," Mann admitted that the opulent new building takes getting used to. "It reminds me of what my father...
...Harvard whipped Penn soundly, and last week the Tigers could only place four men in the top ten finishers. They must do better this afternoon if they expect to pose any sort of a realistic threat to Harvard's 31-meet undefeated string...
...Madame's late Lamented Mother is about a squabbling couple who believe mistakenly that the wife's mother has died. The husband, played by Lloyd Schwartz, is hilarious as he rips off a string of consoling euphemisms and "There There's" about poor dear sweet mama "passing on ." The play stiffened a little bit from being slapstick and almost too fast to handle intelligently-but everybody laughed a lot so who cares...