Word: affixation
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...enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium, to show him where all the wide open space...
...blow on for a thousand words or so before subsiding. He qualifies each thought, hedges each qualification, follows divergent ideas out of sight through cat's cradles of parentheses and dashes. He is as fond as Faulkner of the present participle. When it seems that he must stop, affix a period and begin a new sentence with "He said . . .", Simon merely drops a comma to catch his breath and continues with "saying . . ." If Simon's chapter-sentences are read quickly, and if the reader does not follow his natural inclination to stop and sort out thoughts and thinkers...
Americans are beginning to recognize his face: a pudgy, petulant face which has begun to appear in official Soviet photographs next to Stalin's aging, feline mask. Malenkov was once even empowered to affix the dread signature of Stalin to certain documents, with a special rubber stamp. And more is rumored: that this short (5 ft. 7 in), fat (250 Ibs.), 50-year-old man will inherit Stalin's power. This week, as the19th Congress of the Russian Communist Party convenes in Moscow, great new honors will come to the wielder of Stalin's rubber stamp...
There were few on the floor and undoubtedly few among televiewers who did not stare with interest at pert, grey-haired, 52-year-old Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, the Treasurer of the U.S. The reason: it is one of Mrs. Clark's duties and privileges to affix her signature to the lower left-hand corner of all paper money. She hoped, she said, that everyone in the hall had "many dollar bills with my signature...
...officer then read an article of war which stated that refusal to obey the command of a superior would bring "death or such other penalty as a court-martial may direct. Billings was told by the officer in charge, "Private Billings, I hereby give you a direct order to affix your fingerprints to this record of your induction." He refused, was taken off to the guardhouse, and held for courtmartial...