Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miniature package of world events between the covers of TIME. Names mentioned in the telegram-like articles were usually unknown to me; parts of its contents seemed incomprehensible, others without meaning. The pushed-together political reviews which, like other stories coming from dozens of sources, were all strung through the same needle's eye, were a complete mystery to me. And then the captions; and the language altogether. I gave...
...Artur Rodzinski, high-strung maestro of the New York Philharmonic, sold the Berkshire Hills farm where he used to raise goats and moved on to a farther retreat near Lake Placid, N.Y. One of the old place's disadvantages: Pilgrims from the Berkshire music festival had been getting in his hair...
...Prague's Manes Kaverna last week, the people sat for hours over a cup of ersatz coffee until night came, and the red, blue and green lights strung in the poplars were turned on; a 15-piece band, trim in white linen jackets (though some musicians omitted neckties), fiddled nostalgia. Prague's current favorite, which was banned during the war as Red propaganda...
...unmistakable notice that it was time for labor to accept its responsibilities, but labor, despite some of its leaders' offstage whispers about the necessity of some reforms, had shown no public inclination to pay that sort of price for peace. And the President, playing the political game, had strung along with labor...
...Times proud of its foreign-news coverage. Seasoned by a decade of wars (in Ethiopia, Loyalist Spain, Italy, India, France), he holds a top job on the biggest staff (55 men) that any U.S. newspaper maintains abroad. His bosses know their London bureau head as a deadly serious, high-strung reporter who makes his share of wrong guesses, but strives to make sense for tomorrow's historians as well as today's cable editors...