Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than a Quick Profit. When Lever House was in the early design stage, Skidmore experts spent days assembling an impressive array of arguments against ground-floor shops, e.g., shops would require basement storage space that might better serve as a Lever garage, in bad times the company might have to subsidize the shops to give the building a prosperous appearance, etc. By the time the soapmen got to see the final soaring design, they were dead set against shops. "They liked what they saw," says Skidmore, "and they wanted something more than a quick profit...
...believe that the documents were genuine) to fill half-a-dozen run-of-the-mill espionage thrillers. In addition, Mankiewicz's screenplay contains some effective frills of its own: a love affair between the valet and a former employer, a beautiful Polish countess, some bright epigrammatic dialogue, and an array of skillfully drawn diplomatic officials. Particularly clever use is made of the contrasting personalities of the pompous, victimized, British Ambassador (superbly played by Walter Hampden) and the disdainful German Ambassador (equally well played by John Wengraf), who keeps insisting to his "juvenile delinquent" colleagues that the information they are purchasing...
...Supreme Commander described the military array beyond the Iron Curtain, "deployed and poised as for war." Against the Soviet divisions stood the meager forces of free Europe. To build an adequate defensive shield, two big problems had to be solved: "How to persuade the nations of the free West to allocate afresh their resources in production and manpower," and how to organize strategically...
...United Nations, deadpan grim despite the ludicrousness of his charges, Russia's Jacob A. Malik accused the U.S. of raining down on the enemy a horrible array of germ-laden objects: pork, crackers, spiders, crows, ants, yellow leaves, crickets, flies, fleas and death-dealing goose feathers. Malik's colleagues on the U.N. Disarmament Commission could take it no longer. "My right ear," complained Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, who sits at Malik's left, "has become seriously infected by the perpetual dissemination of verbal bacilli." The commission, eleven against Malik, ruled the Russian out of order...
...Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts in Halifax, an impressive array of notables assembled one day last week for a special ceremony: the presentation of two 17th century landscapes attributed to the Italian artist Salvator Rosa. What brought out the notables was not so much the Rosas as their roundabout arrival...