Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nashville home of Director David K. Wilson on Sunday night, Jan. 2. The six issued a call to the full board to meet in special session the next day at Genesco's Nashville headquarters. In a session that lasted more than ten hours, the board voted to strip Franklin Jarman of his executive responsibilities. Franklin, after a futile attempt to resist, voted philosophically for his own demotion; afterward, associates described him as being "in a state of shock." Who eventually may succeed him is impossible to guess now, but his temporary replacement, Blackie, has already earned at least...
...makes no effort to report the news of what is happening in Britain, let alone the world. It concentrates on sports, gossip about TV stars and sex, mostly sex. Sample headlines: I'LL STILL SHARE A TENT WITH SHARON; GREEN-EYED SEX FIEND IS HUNTED; APACHE STRIP PUTS PARSON ON WARPATH?a story about a male entertainer named Apache who stripped off his clothes while performing at a women's bingo party to raise money to buy a water bed for a priest...
...Peruvian-Chilean relations has been the two countries' inability to agree on a formula for giving the Bolivians the access to the sea they lost when, as an ally of Peru, they were also defeated in the War of the Pacific. Chile recently offered to cede a strip along its border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that Peru opposes the creation...
...lines of Moby Dick into: "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago-never mind how long precisely-having little or no Mongol in my purulence, and nothing particular to interest me on shortbread, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery partiality of the worriment." Strip Flipper. OuLiPo's only American, Harry Mathews, has contributed "perverbs"-combined proverbs permuted until the mind is dizzied and the meaning transmogrified: "Every cloud is another man's poison"; "The road to Hell is paved with rolling stones." Poet Jacques Bens writes "irrational sonnets" based on the value...
...shout from Elvin Anderson's yelping GT-60 8.20s as he went slip-sliding into that stationwagon. But home, for me and for Prine, is a place of contradictions, a place where true natural beauty can give away around the next turn to the ugly slash of a strip mine, where the people seem more alive and you can get killed as easy as next Saturday night. A lot of days I'm glad I have Boston and The New York Times and the current cinema. I make up stupid country songs and laugh at the women's circle...