Word: buildups
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carrying price tags of $5,000 an acre and up (to a high of $25,000 an acre). William O. Cochran, a farmer who moved with his family to Plains three years ago, attempted to auction off publicly his 1,056 acres after an expensive publicity buildup. Cochran received a high bid of $1.2 million, but mysteriously refused...
Since President Carter seems unfamiliar with the laws of human nature, he might learn from the animal world: the wolf is placated by the tiger, not by the hummingbird. What we need now is not arms reduction but a massive arms buildup on our side of such magnitude that the Russians will come to realize they will not succeed in their attempt to rule the world...
Keeley's skillful organization of the material enhances his thesis, for the essay progresses much as Keeley would have Cavafy's myth evolve--from the first tentative attempts to circumscribe a subject to the buildup of a multicellular organism in which each part functions to the betterment of the whole. Keeley first discusses the interplay between the literal city of Alexandria and Cavafy's mythical counterpart. He then treats each plane--the sensual (contemporary) and historical--separately, and finally unifies the two in a brief discussion of the poet's latest work, and the beginnings of a "universal mode," which...
Avalanche of Protest. The cathedral's sacramental gloom, however, comes in part from a buildup of dirt, pollutants, fungi and algae on the windows over years of exposure. At the end of 1976, the French government's Department of Historic Monuments finished a three-year restoration program on three of Chartres's most famous 12th century windows, all on the west wall above the main entrance of the cathedral: The Tree of Jesse, The Childhood of Christ and The Passion. The windows were taken down, disassembled piece by piece and sent to a government laboratory outside Paris...
...this has changed. He leaves with the U.S. poised for new initiatives throughout the world. The damage of the Viet Nam War and Watergate has been contained. Despite the buildup of Soviet conventional forces, the outbreak of a major war seems remote...