Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among technology's dubious gifts to the 20th century is an ever-growing array of devices for snooping: wiretapping refinements, tiny movie cameras, camera film that takes pictures in the dark, microphones so sensitive that they can pick up a whisper through a masonry wall, tape recorders so compact that they will fit into a coat pocket. Long before 1984, the state of affairs depicted by Novelist George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four will be a technological possibility: "You had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard . . . every movement scrutinized...
...mild morning last April, a band of dignitaries gathered before the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. In the place of honor stood a tall old man whose somber mask of a face looked stiffly ahead. Before him, stretching to the hilltop, was an array of granite pillars, blocks and crosses - the graves of Americans who had died in two wars with Germany. Behind him fluttered the black, red and gold flag of the Federal Republic of Germany...
Finally the visitors' Joe Farrier reached the 1 and 3-meter board diving finals in the National championships. Faced with this array of stars, Ulen said. "we anticipate quite a tussle and expect a much tougher meet than from out Eastern League opponents...
Last week the Press, the oldest and one of the most successful dailies in the 19-paper Scripps-Howard chain, celebrated its 75th anniversary in real family style. All Cleveland was invited to the party in the city's biggest auditorium, where Toastmaster General George Jessel led an array of stars in a "Salute to Cleveland." Throughout the week visitors streamed through the paper's aged plant (to be replaced by a lakefront building) and tributes poured in from all over the world. "If Cleveland has grown great," glowed Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche, "a good deal...
...choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility." Today, at 84. Architect Wright would never be accused of humble hypocrisy. But he is also revered, at home and abroad, as the world's greatest living architect. Last week the U.S. could take a long backward look at the array of Wright's achievements, expressed both in words and deeds...