Word: abound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indian-Mound Garage. Big Sur is challenging country. The land is periodically shaken by earthquakes, battered by 80-m.p.h. winds; rainfall can total 72 in. in three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons reaching down into bedrock. On this he secured a rigid A-frame, surrounded it with cantilevered balconies carried around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock...
Miss Caldwell so far has employed singers who, at their prime, may perform lead roles at New York City Center Opera Company for a few seasons, thence to tour Europe where companies abound and decent voices are harder to come by. Though these artists do not produce an impressive performance, they generally prepare a role with dedication and sing it with dependable effectiveness...
...change, however, the first couple of acts abound in comedy: not bad stuff, though nothing a real comic dramatist need be particularly proud of, and spoiled because the characters find it funnier than the audience...
...aged) last week, there was little that doctors could do but keep down body temperatures. Work crews were spraying swamps with oil and DDT. To everyone in the affected areas. Health Commissioner Roscoe Kandle issued a sharp warning: stay clear of swamps and farmyards where mosquitoes or infected animals abound...
...Rebel Colors. Along the road, the mementos of war abound: a concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...