Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roseland-to-Metuchen high-tension line through Scotch Plains, N. J. eight years ago, it found its way blocked by a colony of prosperous, high-spirited Poles. To John Crempa, 46, thin, hot-tempered U. S. Army veteran and journeyman tailor, the company offered $800 for the necessary strip of land through his property. Crempa demanded $100,000, and even after the company had the Crempa land condemned and posted the awarded $800 with the court, Crempa refused to take it, raised his price to $150,000. He began a one-man revolution, enthusiastically aided by all his neighbors (TIME...
...surgeon inspected Kuda Bux's feet. They were not in the least burned; the strip of adhesive tape was not even scorched...
...responded to Haile Selassie's invitation for a Guebbeur last week. The Emperor merely filled his palace courtyard with freshly slaughtered cattle and opened the gate. Screaming with gusto, each trooper made parallel cuts with his knife in an animal's flanks, seized the end of the strip of flesh between his teeth, pulled with a blood-gushing rip, chewed hard. As usual, the climax of the Guebbeur came a little later when the Imperial Guard grew drunk on the hot blood and cups of potent native mead. Though obliged to attend the Guebbeur, the King of Kings consumed...
Isolated in the "Arizona Strip," a barren district near the Utah border, live a people called the Brethren of the United Order, expelled years ago from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Quietly and religiously certain Brethren have been practicing polygamy. Bothering no one, they might have continued to do so had not U. S. relief agents found it out last month. Families of Brethren, reported agents, run from nine to 15 children. Specifically, one 18-year-old had three wives. On this information County Attorney Elmo Bellinger charged into the "Strip," began serving warrants...
...good lads shoved me off and the Bluebird made a good getaway in first speed. . . . Ahead of me stretched a seemingly illimitable field of glaring white with an eight-inch black strip down the centre to guide me. . . . Faster & faster I went. It was the first time a world's high-speed record had been attempted on salt. . . . I passed my first marker, a huge 'No. 6' three feet high, painted on a large square board. This indicated to me that I had six miles to go before I reached the beginning of the measured mile...