Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valli embarked on a grueling schedule of about 300 concerts a year from 1969 to 1973. During that period, his ears got so bad that at times he had trouble hearing the band playing behind him. Finally, a series of operations restored most of Valli's hearing, and a string of No. 1 hits in the 1970s put the Four Seasons back on easy street...
McConaghy singled and Renninger and Morelli both doubled, the latter driving home two runs. After senior Dave Jamieson walked, O'Connell capped the string of consecutive men reaching base safely with a single to drive in his second...
Despite repeated city rulings against Harvard,the University engaged in a four-year string ofdisputes that made the Craigie Arms a common sitefor tenant groups' picket lines. Finally, in Mayof 1985, the Cambridge Rent Control Board exemptedthe existing apartments from rent controlregulations, allowing Harvard to rehabilitate thebuilding and charge higher rents for the 50 newapartments...
...yuppie relationship-speak, brazen in their sheer excess. "I'm not worried about hell," he says, " 'cause I was ((exploding into a shout)) married for two f years! Hell would be like Club Med!" A stint at the piano for a song to his ex-girlfriend turns into a string of obscenities ending with "I want my records back!" His blasphemous accounts of the Last Supper and the Resurrection are startling reminders that even in the post-Lenny Bruce age, comedians still have the power to offend...
...Judges' first-string pitcher separated her shoulder in their last outing, knocking her out of the line-up for the remainder of the season...