Word: strung
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...when at Christmas in 1962 my parents gave me a superb Hallicrafters world-band radio receiver that I might hear German away from my classroom, I was already primed to listen. For a rural junior-high school kid, the radio was a Christmas-day magic box, and once I strung copper wire from the house to a huge white pine far out in the swamp, I grasped that box's reach...
...organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow up." Reed is more wary; he would not talk about himself or his rival for this story...
Holiday trappings range from simple white lights strung around window frames to elaborate set-ups students concoct from items either bought in the Square or brought from home...
...standby in room decorations remains the standard string of CVS lights strung around a window or ceiling moulding, but some students have come up with more festive and inventive ways to show their holiday spirit...
...first set of the evening ended with the performance of excerpts from Batistes Late Suite. This fascinating piece of music sets the basic harmonies and pulse of traditional New Orleans jazz in the full orchestral context in which it rarely appears. This particular performance strung three of the suite's movements together and incorporated a poetic sermon by the composer's wife. Edith Batiste, into the musical table. As Mrs. Batiste declaimed her verses about the disunity of man and similar themes, the members of the rhythm section created a suitably dramatic background out of freely placed notes and rhythms...