Word: build
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...researchers urged the board to spend $110 million--$42 million of which is to be contributed by the Federal government--to build five "education centers" and three "middle schools." The centers, which would be carefully located to avoid racial imbalance, would be super-high schools having student bodies numbering between...
...TIME'S story "McCoy's Navy" [Aug. 5] recalls my first meeting with Roy McCoy. He was building a bicycle rack for a school in Coronado, Calif. In contrast to the pickets who express their discontent by merely marching in circles, the McCoys are the kind of people who actively meet the needs of community life. Should hostilities cease tomorrow, McCoy would be looking for ways to build bridges of good will and mutual understanding. Ingenuity and creative action are part of his life style. HAROLD A. MACNEILL Chaplain, U.S.N. Portsmouth...
Foreign contractors and advisers proposed roads, schools, power plants, harbors and sewage systems. Shakhbout always refused. In one rare moment of weakness, he agreed to build a modern hospital, then later refused to equip it. Merchants who called on the sheik to ask payment of long-standing debts were thrown out of the palace. When Shakhbout's 600-man police force protested about overdue pay, he fired half the force...
...that the best acting in Cambridge this Summer was at Agassiz. Woyzeck is perfectly cast. Tom Babe, his voice lowered an octave, plays Woyzeck as if he were a tormented animal. I thought at first that he was too powerful in the opening scenes, but the performance continued to build skillfully in intensity. Babe is great with props; whenever his hand touches the butcher's knife, you can't take your eyes...
...residents; by 1965, it was a turbulent tourist mecca of gaudy gambling casinos, glaring neon bar strips, and other commercialized enticements playing to camping-room-only crowds. Now with just under 6,000,000 visitors annually, even the foresight that led the South Tahoe Public Utilities District to build and thrice expand its sewage disposal plant from 1958 on has proved woefully inadequate; the plant, with a top disposal capacity of 2.5 million gallons of sewage a day, is being called upon to deal with some 4,000,000 gallons of waste this year...