Word: strung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solo, but just as he built to a climax, the roar of a Boeing 727 jet drowned him out. Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash to repair a snapped string...
...Road. Trained for a year at a special Air Force school in Denver, the photo interpreters can tell whether a dark patch in the foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends...
...enemy's major troop units had faded away, and the U.S. and South Vietnamese battalions were sweeping forward almost at will. They overran an enemy regimental staging area, a base camp, a 100-bed hospital with 1,200 lbs. of medical supplies, and a V.C. reception area strung with banners reading "Welcome to the National Liberation Front...
...volt power lines and towers, was resolved by Government intervention and esthetic power engineering. The AEC exercised the right of federal eminent domain and was fully supported by Congress and President Johnson. To soothe Woodsiders, power engineers designed and erected unobtrusive, green, one-legged towers, and strung power lines through the trees instead of hacking out the usual lane that is used during construction for maintenance and protection against fires...
...compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with those that remained; the effect was to concentrate Bell service in cities where telephone demands were bigger. The country was largely left to the independents, who sometimes strung their wire along fences and made the party line famous. Now the independents turn out to have good growth areas and their revenues have been increasing an average of 11% annually v. 7.6% for Bell...