Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acres. A dark, blustery front was coming in from the west. On the porch sat Jack Owens, a black man with startling blue eyes, and with him was a friend, Ira Hudson, who volunteered, "I'm doing fine for a 75-year-old pap." Owens got out his twelve string Silvertone guitar from Sears, Roebuck, and you could see dust buildup on all the lower frets that a bluesman never fingers. Spires accepted an A harp from Owens, removed a wooden kitchen match from his mouth and began to blow...
...contrast, the Sun has flourished by establishing a reputation for the sort of reporting on national politics and foreign affairs that is usually matched only by much larger papers. During the Mexican War, the Sun used a string of riders to bring the latest dispatches to Baltimore on horseback, scooping its competitors and even the White House. In 1925 the Sun assigned H.L. Mencken to write his famous series of articles on the historic Tennessee "monkey trial" of John Scopes, who stood accused of teaching evolution in public classrooms. Under the leadership of Reg Murphy, who has been publisher since...
Bobby Kay was captain of the Harvard baseball team this year and its starting second baseman. Coming out of high school in Southern California, he was a celebrated and much-recruited baseball and basketball star, but a string of injuries in recent years has curtailed an otherwise promising baseball career. A Biology major and a pre-med, the Dunster House resident will attend Johns Hopkins medical school in the fall. Kay was recently named an honorable mention academic All-American...
...most ways, business could not be better for Fiat and its charismatic chairman, Gianni Agnelli. The Italian conglomerate, which manufactures such high-tech equipment as robotics and telecommunications systems, as well as autos and other vehicles, has come roaring back from a string of losses in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fiat's profits increased 113% last year, to a record $884 million on sales of $18 billion. But the company has been unable to escape an increasingly embarrassing problem: about 15% of its stock is owned by Libya, and two representatives from the land of Muammar Gaddafi...
...bridge the human gaps, Hands organizers were expected to string miles of red and blue ribbons and rope. Cars and trucks were to be lined up trunk to hood. At week's end an armada of catamarans and sailboards hauled to the site by their owners made a surreal sea as they floated bow to stern on a hill west of Albuquerque. Hands Tennessee Organizer Tif Bingham said the event would be a huge success, no matter how broken the chain. After all, he pointed out, "the main purpose of Hands Across America is to raise money for the poor...