Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles inside the Arctic Circle, engineers are blasting an airfield out of rock. In Balikesir, where two years ago Turks welcomed their first U.S.-made jets by sacrificing a sheep, Turkish pilots stand ready to "scramble" whenever the radar indicates enemy aircraft. Both outposts, and with them an immense array of armies, navies and air fleets, are joined together in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, history's greatest peacetime military alliance...
...Sands Point she is Mrs. Guggenheim to the six servants who staff the 30-room Norman chateau, Falaise, overlooking Long Island Sound. Her husband built it as a showplace in 1923, imported bricks from Belgium, hand-carved doors from Italy and Spain, and filled it with, a museum-like array of fine statues, paintings, tapestries, chandeliers and silver. Publisher Patterson is too busy for household affairs, lets her secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will...
...Thirteenth Air Force in the Pacific. Later he served as senior Air Force member on the U.N.'s Military and Naval Staff Committee; in 1949 he was given the job of coordinating plans for the new academy. With an earnest but easygoing diplomacy, he whittled down the bewildering array of blueprints, picked an able committee of civilians and airmen (among them: Charles A. Lindbergh, General Carl Spaatz) to choose a site. Finally, in 1953, having retired to San Antonio, General Harmon was summoned back to help push the whole project through Congress...
...regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they combine past and present history; and through a bewildering array of projects (e.g., wiring the classroom bell, building a weather station), they pick up the essentials of science-while also having a good deal...
...Customers can look over 60,600 items, including ten different types of paints, varnishes and lacquers in 150 colors, shelf upon shelf of nuts, bolts, screws, doorknobs and window catches, all arranged in neat bins so the do-it-yourselfer can serve himself. Along one wall there is an array of 50 power tools that clerks demonstrate, cutting boards and drilling holes for customers to show them exactly...