Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Objections from the community itself were voiced by a Mission Hill resident and architect, John Sharratt. "I really don't think people object to the hospital itself-if it has to be built, it has to be built. But the fact that the AHC is being so secretive has made a lot of people pretty mad," Sharratt said...
Where are the big brave warriors now? . . . His silver, supersonic soarer. His bomb-blowing, truck-finding Sea-swooping carrier Where is it? Him, the educated engineer, architect, Geologist, economist, turned Bon vivant aviator, Where is he? . . . He drank at Cubi, swaggered at Yokuska, Rested in Honolulu. He was proud. Mom, apple pie and the red, white and blue were with him. Now he is in a cell. He wears pajamas, sleeps on a mat . . . And waits. He waits for the red. white and blue...
...meeting at the national committee office to review this fall's campaign and map tactics for 1972. Among those attending: Mitchell, Finch, Rogers Morton and his brother, former National Committee Chairman Thruston Morton, House Campaign Chairman Bob Wilson and his Senate counterpart John Tower, and Leonard Hall, the architect of Dwight Eisenhower's 1956 campaign. Hall was there because he alone among the group had experience in running a campaign for an incumbent President...
While Mr. Gruson is supposedly an expert in the field of city planning and Mr. Hornbeck a landscape architect, their hasty opinions of flood control problems only magnifies the poor planning that has dominated the Blair Pond proposal, and can hardly be considered professional...
...architect Ribart de Cham-oust proposed the construction of a colossal, 300-ft.-high elephant whose trunk would send forth an immense jet of water to irrigate surrounding gardens. The elephant would contain a restaurant and ballroom and be surmounted by a gigantic statue of King Louis XV. The proposal was rejected, as were others to construct a white marble obelisk or an enormous sundial there. It was Napoleon who conceived the massive Arc de Triomphe in 1806 as a monument to the heroes of the French victory at Marengo. The arch was completed 30 years later during the reign...