Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teacher Salzedo rules his brood of high-strung harpists with a soft voice and an iron hand. He begins the summer session by outlawing the wearing of slacks, ordering the hair to be worn on top of the head ("It goes with the instrument") and personally trimming each student's fingernails to the quick...
...first time China and India were linked by telephone last week. U.S. engineers, with British material and Chinese and Indian labor, had strung the wires, in pace with the construction of the Stilwell Road, across 1,750 miles of some of the world's toughest jungles and mountains, made tougher by Japanese gun fire. Said the New York Times: "Whether or not swift communication makes for swift understanding one doesn't know. The line may carry angry words. . . . But the Orient ... is shrinking, and this is one of the shrinkages...
Today, as the last man is strung up by the strung of the window shade in the back of the room, the class takes the opportunity both for itself and his former students to offer congratulations to President Wernette of the University of New Mexico...
Lady Astor, high-strung, American-born M.P., huffed, puffed and pleaded to no avail when Canadian MPs barred her from her London house, which had been requisitioned for Dominion overseas election headquarters. She was assured that she would be able to get in as soon-as the voting was over-nine days later...
Divorced. By Ida Lupino, 27, big-eyed, high-strung cinemactress (The Hard Way): Cinemactor Louis Hayward, 36, ex-Marine Corps captain; after nearly seven years of marriage; in Los Angeles...