Zheng, Wade-Giles romanization cheng also called guzheng ("ancient zither") or qinzheng, Chinese plucked board zither roughly 47 inches (120 cm) long and 12 inches (30 cm) wide.
They were rapacious on the offensive boards, even plucking their own missed free throws.
An e-mail message sent among a group of alumni showed surprise that Dr. Simmons was deciding Mr. Blankfein's bonus, saying, "Who knew Brown had this much power?" Indeed, corporate America has a long history of stocking boards with people plucked from academia and elsewhere.
A string band plucked away.
Naturally this includes the Guggenheim (and Gehry is already on board), but the arched and plucked eyebrows of Paris's smart set were raised even higher at the news that the UAE had paid the Louvre $520m for the rights to use the august institution's name for the next three decades.
It was also his path to the Time Warner board, from which he was plucked to be the company president.
Then Covers plucked her from the boards and gave her a weekly column, sight unseen.
Last week, the pastry chef tweeted a photo of plucked woodcocks on the cutting board, right there in the East Village.
For epic-narrative performance, however, the fiddle is replaced with a two-stringed plucked lute or a long board-zither.
They stand with neon poster boards, with their candidate's official signs plucked from their front lawns.
"She's a quick learner," said former Gov. Thomas H. Kean, a family friend who plucked Mrs. Whitman from a county freeholders board to serve in his cabinet as president of the Board of Public Utilities, her first statewide post, in 1988.
