Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warship; a silently terrible shot of the British wreckage at Dunkirk; a boyish, 53-year-old General Dwight Eisenhower munching lunch on the floor of Franklin Roosevelt's auto in North Africa. In the next 25 hour-and half-hour weekly installments the same technique and an array of writers will try to capture the times through film essays on specific subjects, e.g., the first rocket missiles, the FBI, Benito Mussolini, the Windsor love story, the Nürnberg trials. If only' some of them equal the quality of the first, CBS's Twentieth Century will...
...Dollars Be Damned." With these explanatory words spoken, the Administration moved swiftly in other directions. The National Security Council met with a portentous array of high administrative brass and came to a quick conclusion. As a result, Dwight Eisenhower ordered an urgent and immediate review of the nation's missile program by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, just sworn into office the day before...
...Asia until it was disastrously late, but Viet Nam's Confucian revivalists are not worried. The government has issued a Confucian handbook, and officials hold biweekly staff meetings at which government employees are drilled in the master's tenets. The Van-mieu "temple of literature"-with its array of tablets containing the life stories of Confucius and other sages-will be rebuilt in Saigon (the original is in now-Communist Hanoi). A' highbrow Confucian monthly will continue to expound ethics, and the literary contests begun in the sage's time will be revived. The Confucian Ballet...
...finest local specimens of Charles Addams Victorian is the antique white building which houses the Harvard Furniture Company. Customers entering the Massachusetts Avenue store are confronted with an array of gingerbread cabinets and a pair of owl andirons with amber eyes. Like the exterior, the inside of the shop seems a memorial to the taste of the last century...
This would be a neat trick if Hourani could pull it off. But even with the success he has achieved thus far, there is still an imposing array of odds against...