Word: strung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shirtsleeved, tousled-haired physicist bounded across the platform, he unleashed his ideas in staccato bursts and gesticulated with the verve of a maestro. "You have to pardon Carlo," said a colleague. "He's a little high-strung these days." With good reason. Using one of the world's most powerful atom smashers, Italy's Carlo Rubbia, 48, and his team of 134 European and American scientists appear to have snared a trophy that has been the dream of physicists for two generations: discovery of the so-called W particle, the elusive carrier of one of the universe...
...stuck in some weird, high-strung limbo between hope and hopelessness. Inmates' optimism is the manic wishfulness of losing gamblers. Their fatalism is generally not wise but numb, a brute shrug...
Author Palmer, 27, occasionally reveals his lack of experience. He does not always establish the point from which the action is to be viewed. It is unlikely, for example, that a passenger in a helicopter could perceive that a fence, far below, was strung at the top with concertina wire. Palmer also has a habit of interrupting characters' reveries and providing information that they do not know, a tic that needlessly diverts attention from the puppets to the puppeteer. But he successfully keeps a large cast of vivid actors breathlessly on the move. Better still, he offers an entertainment...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard's present four game will streak is its longest since the 1980-81 season when the cagers strung together eight victories...
...Grace & Co. bought him out in 1976 for 450,000 shares of Grace stock, worth about $17.5 million at current prices. At Grace, Cano is president of El Torito-La Fiesta Restaurants (1981 sales: $150 million); he has expanded the division into a 90-unit operation with restaurants strung from Tacoma, Wash., to Tampa. Up to 15 will be added next year...