Word: threading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glass recounted the story later, the first challenge was to shed his chains. Glass, 36, found that when he made a fist, he could wriggle out of the wrist binding, but the leg chain was trickier. With pieces of thread shredded from his blindfold, Glass bound links of the chain together, and over a period of days fooled his guards into loosening the tether. On the first night that he could pull free, Glass waited until he could hear the snores of his guards. Loosening the chains, he slipped onto the balcony of the high-rise building where...
...Isiah Thomas and Al Campanis have testified, a thread of color winds through baseball, basketball and all the playgrounds...
...John Gotti, defense lawyers launched savage personal attacks against Prosecutor Diane Giacalone; they even made wild charges that Giacalone had given her underwear to a prospective witness as an inducement to testify. Charges like that, says New York University Law Professor Stephen Gillers, "represent a breakdown in the last thread of civility in a contentious adversarial process...
...South Africa is the scapegoat of America's bad conscience, ((but)) the South African government is not prepared to surrender." Some 2,000 Afrikaners leaped to their feet, applauding wildly. Carrying his campaign to restive Stellenbosch last week, Botha claimed that "reform, change and ( renewal" run "like a golden thread" through the history of the National Party. Those who thought otherwise, he declared, "should be ashamed of themselves." Student hecklers in the back howled and jeered at Botha, and one of them asked when he would retire. "If I feel like I do tonight, you're likely...
...practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef and now adviser to Shanghai's Jinjiang Hotel. "Our cooking began to decline in the '50s, and we won't even talk about the '60s and '70s, when our most talented chefs left the country," he added. "We have to teach young cooks...