Word: thread
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warning booming of the miniature cannon on the committee boat sounds the approach of a race's starting time, Shields settles down to the business at hand: getting off to a split-second start. Nobody racing today does it better. His eyes flicker from the tiny "telltales" of thread on the stays (for gauging wind) to his stopwatches, to the starting line, to his sails, which. Corny stoutly maintains, "are 75% of racing success." All the while, he issues quiet orders to his crew of fellow amateurs...
...sisters were no homelier than many women who had sewed up husbands, but their thoughts were wound around their work like thread around a spool. Spinsters at 50, they had never even been kissed...
Every Sunday in New Orleans, a crowd of jazz fans thread their way into a Bourbon Street gin mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
Torsion, Crystallic Image, Construction in Space with Crystal Center. With their bridges and platforms, their delicate plastic cutouts, their gleaming spider webs of plastic thread, they tend to look like the inner ears of a robot or like railway stations in some suburb on Mars...
...committees; she must woo a shy but fascinated Congress (already she has made nine trips to Capitol Hill). Yet, amid the bewildering mass of unrelated facts, figures and projects. Oveta Hobby was quick to discover a theme of organic unity: through the department, she said recently, runs "a common thread of family service. Cut one, and you destroy the lifeline of the others...