Word: bedrock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenging country. The land is periodically shaken by earthquakes, battered by 80-m.p.h. winds; rainfall can total 72 in. in three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons reaching down into bedrock. On this he secured a rigid A-frame, surrounded it with cantilevered balconies carried around the outside to exploit the spectacular view. For roof beams he bought 60-year-old redwood timbers of a demolished bridge. A four-car garage was dug partially out of bedrock, leaving a prehistoric Indian mound undisturbed...
Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...grand but tidy was the Maine publishing empire Guy P. Gannett built. They were Guy's five papers,* no mistake; his flinty Republicanism, his bedrock conviction that heavy advertisers deserved to make news, were graven into every issue. Five years ago, when Gannett died and the chain passed to his daughter, a handsome divorcee of 30 and mother of three boys, most old subscribers reckoned that the reign in Maine would never be the same again...
Neither passionate proddings by Northerners nor desperate defiance by Southerners have swayed Dwight Eisenhower in his refusal to make a moral crusade out of the civil rights issue. The President's bedrock position: the law must be obeyed. Last week the Administration sent to Congress a civil rights bill that is even more temperate in its use of law than its 1957 version. Notably missing: the celebrated Title III of the 1957 bill that would have empowered the Attorney General to file suits on behalf of citizens deprived of civil rights,* an omission seeming to indicate that the President...
What makes Haniwa art the more beguiling is that it plants modern Japanese art in the bedrock of the nation's culture, before Buddhism was imported from China and Korea. Gallerygoers readily identify the unchanging gabled houses still found in country districts, and the traditional peasant women's dress. Art lovers see even more in Haniwa. Wrote one Japanese critic: "Haniwa's geometrizing of natural forms is exactly in tune with the dicta of cubism. Artists are now ready to accept Haniwa as 'pure art' and as delightful, intuitive jugglings of basic sculptural forms...