Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound of whistles and bugles, and the exuberant cries of young voices, chanting as they march by. This is the tenth national jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, and 32,000 youngsters have camped among the tall pines, like an army taking its rest after a string of victories...
...Core as the "revolutionary" new educational theory of the 1980s, Core courses seem all the world like the General Education courses, which were divided into Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. Some Core courses cover rather specific areas, like Lit and Arts B-54, "The Development of the String Quartet," and Foreign Cultures 24, "Turn-of-the-Century Austrian Culture. Some are very broad, like Science B-16, "History of the World and of Life," and Social Analysis 16, "War." The main effect of the Core, many students say, is that it shook up the Faculty and forced them...
...Neill and his allies, the string of Reagan successes raised the specter of an imperial presidency that could dictate legislation from the West Wing. But there is some question as to whether the same coalition that voted for his economic program will follow the President's lead on controversial social issues, like outlawing abortion, or on tough foreign policy questions, like selling AWACS surveillance planes to Saudi Arabia...
Most people equate Colonels with the Air Force or truckstop chicken, but in reality, a Colonel is something far more intangible. As he came gliding up the escalator in a blue suit and a string tie, his white hair and goatee perfectly groomed, you realized that no interplay of advertising could create something like this. There was something magnanimous in his eyes, and yet something discriminating. He walked with a timeless dignity that made you feel just too post-modern for words. He smiled and mused over the building. He was alone, but everyone here seemed to be his responsibility...
MARRIED. Gene Autry, 73, former singing cowboy star who now owns the California Angels baseball team and a string of TV and radio stations; and Jacqueline Ellam, 39, a former vice president of the Cathedral City, Calif, branch of Security Pacific National Bank; he for the second time, she for the first; in Burbank, Calif. Autry, whose first wife Ina Mae died last year, met Ellam 15 years ago when he went to her bank to negotiate a loan...