Word: stringing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unfortunately, Harvard just bit off more than they could chew. The Crimson was forced to go up against Wilkes right after the first string wrestled Nebraska. Although the wrestlers won only two individual matches against the Big Red. the meet was highlighted by some outstanding wrestling by the Harvard team against some of this country's best mat men. Wrestling ranks as one of the top sports at Nebraska. The team members are not renowned for their scholastic achievement, they come to Nebraska to wrestle...
...repressive economic policies in fancy language, the latest in a series of smokescreen to defer responsibility for the devastating impact of his policies on this nation's poor. We urge Congress to stand up to the Administration by rejecting its latest initiative. If it does not, the President's string of deceptive attacks on America's needy will only grow longer and cause more suffering...
...Harvard's last non-league laugher against the calculating but slow-footed Engineers of MIT, the Crimson men off the bench put together a careful, passing offense and tenacious defense. But faced with the ever-scrappy St. Anselm's Hawks, the second string snapped and tossed the ball away as often as they got a shot...
...only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary merit? What if a literary convict is really a terrible writer? String him up? Will we need a panel of literary judges to meet the first Monday of every month at Elaine's in Manhattan to hear its cases? If the perpetrator of the Texas chain-saw massacre shows a certain flair for the short story...
Ludwig, who made his vast fortune in shipping, mining and real estate, did not fail for lack of trying. In vast stretches of virtually unpopulated jungle, he built a string of airstrips, thousands of miles of roads traveled by hundreds of cars and trucks, a private railway to haul freight, a deep-water port, a hospital, a school and a giant service depot stocked with spare parts and equipment. Jari's capital, Monte Dourado (pop. 35,000), is a sprawling community of neat bungalows, town houses and apartments...