Word: twine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first became interested in the work while demonstrating hooked rugs in a Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...
Fast work, patience, and binder's twine were enough to rig the ailing Harvard Band drum into shape for the game today at Cornell. When the eight foot drum nearly collapsed two days ago, undergraduate Band manager Alan S. Novick '55 feared that the decaying instrument would stay home for the first time in 27 years...
...jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water...
...impossible to be completely candid. It's an art and it takes technique, and you have to learn it. If you've lived a life that isn't free and open with people, it's almost impossible to unsnarl it, to unravel the ball of twine...
...tiedown cables holding the planes snapped like twine, and the wind whipped the 139-ton craft about like Piper Cubs. As the big blow struck, a C-47 was ready to take off. The pilot saw what was coming, and "flew" at full power into the teeth of the gale. The plane stood almost motionless above the field. In Carswell's control tower, the wind indicator hand shot up, indicated 91 m.p.h. Then part of the anemometer blew away...