Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once they were strung out around the big brick-&-asphalt saucer, the drivers had not the foggiest notion of their relative position in the race. They relied, as speedway drivers must, on the mechanics in the pit for information, pace instructions, fuel, repairs. Unlike the racehorse owner, who can only watch after his thoroughbred takes the track, Car Owner Lou Moore stood in the pit, busy, nervous, efficient...
...high-strung standards of modern psychiatry, perfectly "normal" people are fairly rare. One top authority gave the solemn opinion last week that in the whole U.S. there are only about 1,000,000 such folks, i.e., those who have no anxieties, no fears, no strong prejudices, no attractive vices. Everyone else he classifies as being, in great or small degree, on the abnormal side...
Born. To Bette Davis, 39, high-strung cinemactress, and Painter (ex-boxer) William Grant Sherry, 32, her third husband: her first child, a girl, on May Day, which Bette chose for her Caesarian section; in Santa Ana, Calif. Name: Barbara Davis Sherry. Weight...
...young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...
Shortly thereafter, Daveron and the R.D.C. agents in Rio had a difference of opinion. Daveron wanted to push west through the plains of Bolivia, then north to the rubber country. The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Mariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist. Neither side budged. So the R.D.C., despairing of the mules project, sold most of the beasts...