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...dolphins were trained for duty in the Viet Nam War. In particular, the animals learned to attack objects with barbed darts. The plan was to have dolphins help protect Cam Ranh Bay by sticking darts into enemy divers who approached. Each dart was attached to a spool of tough thread and a float. When surface patrols spotted the float, they could reel in the hooked diver...
...Holyoke, Massachusetts-born author traced the thread of American attempts to forge "a grand unifying moral force" to solve the country's problems back to the time of the Puritans...
When Schultz is "tried" to avoid conviction for greater offenses, "My mother saved the front page of the Mirror with Mr. Schultz's smiling face and folded it so that just the picture showed, she laid it down in the carriage and brought a thread-bare blanket up to its chin...
...song which most clearly heralds Roberts talent is the title track, "The Truth Is Spoken Here." This bluesy-type number features the soulful combo of Marsalis' trumpet and Todd Williams' tenor sax. Roberts' thoughtful piano, though, is the thread that holds the piece together. It is as if Roberts walks a rope with his piano keys. He totters between complete honesty and halftruths; the tension between the two is felt in his playing and gives great depth to the piece...
Throughout the ongoing disputes over self-identification of minority groups--whether Black or African-American, American Indian or Native American, Asian or Asian-American, Mexican-American or Chicano--runs a common thread of the problem of cultural or ethnic identity...