Word: accessible
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Killian's effectiveness in his new post will be largely determined by the amount of governmental access he is granted, and by the budgetary limits which are set on his work...
...speaking intermediary who gave him the paintings and volunteered the information that the painter was the 27-year-old son of a Soviet functionary, a resident of Leningrad. Cordier smuggled the canvases out in a yard-wide roll of cotton cloth. While the young painter might well have had access to foreign art magazines, Cordier feels the work is too "naive" and violently experimental to suggest that he had seen any Western examples at close hand...
...built for the canvas-covered planes of 1927; today it is the world's busiest airport, and far behind the times. While Chicago has put $25 million into its new O'Hare Field, 15 miles from the Loop, few airlines are anxious to use it until better access-highways and other improvements totaling $100 million are provided...
...absent opposition leaders, Lawyer Phineas Quass, a birdlike little man who had arrived from London only the previous week, insisted sharply: "This statute breaks two fundamental rights of a citizen, namely, to live in his own country, and to have access to the courts." For the government, Bing cited Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, the Kabaka of Buganda and Bechuanaland's Seretse Khama as individuals who had been deported under British parliamentary rule. Retorted Quass: "I know of no precedent for suggesting that [the constitution's] words-'Peace, order and good government'-have been used anywhere...
...arranged that all living rooms are on the middle floor, with a solid floor of bedrooms above and below. From each living room, inside stairs lead up or down to the bedrooms of that suite. Only the middle floor--where the living rooms are--has a central corridor with access to elevators and main stairways...