Word: built
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solid Sumner Slichter went into no dreams of his own of an atom-built, atom-powered U.S. wonderland; he assumed only a continuance of the American talent for invention, and the American genius for production. He left the possibility of war out of consideration, as something that could not be charted. Then, projecting forward from known past performance, he predicted...
Bidault, whose party has been losing ground to De Gaulle's followers, does not want an election. So the spunky little man will do his best to keep France's latest jerry-built cabinet from crashing down...
...that same year Peter's Foxglove II (purchased the night before the race from his good friend Prince Aly Khan) took the Gold Cup at Ascot. On that occasion, Peter invited 500 guests, including the Duke of Kent, to celebrate at a glittering ball in a specially built banqueting hall at his Regent's Park mansion...
Kneeling Worshipers. In Helsinki, 7,500 devotees crowded a hall built for 3,600, cheered the old New Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum...
Sumner, who says his parents have approved of the plan, is looking for a two-man crew to make the trip and share expenses. He plans to have the boat built in Japan and sail the southern route, stopping at Guam, Wake, Midway, and the Hawaiian Islands...