Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration hopes for better things in the Senate. Republican Leaders William Fife Knowland and Styles Bridges say that they will launch a drive to restore the most serious cuts. But they cannot do it without Democratic help. Unless such help is given, the Democratic record would be built on the House shenanigans, which gave a clear, sad answer to the question propounded by Passman himself when he opened the debate...
Misrepresentation No. 1: that the U.S. economy is oppressive. Hoover eloquently defended "our system of regulated economic freedom . . . its built-in impulses of initiative, energy, ambition and opportunity," with its 70-year-old antitrust laws that safeguard "the fundamentals of fair and open competition...
...whipping block-where prisoners were forced to count the strokes aloud as Sommer beat them with a heavy stick. When they lost count, Sommer started again. One man sentenced to 25 strokes got 60 lashes this way. He died on the spot. Sommer blandly admitted the beatings and even built a cardboard model of the whipping block to show the court. "I can't claim to have hit the last strokes as hard as the first," he said. "You always get a little tired...
Puccini once showed a friend a French lithograph of a nude girl pressed against a grated window in Venice. "This," he said, "is the kind of libretto I want for my next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic...
...specialist (on a newsman's intervention). Said Dr. Kentaro Shimizu (5 ft. 4 in.), one of Tokyo's top brain surgeons: "These cases are so uncommon that any specialist would be happy to treat one." Installed in a specially built bed (8 ft. 6 in.) and swathed in a vast yukata (summer kimono) Yoshimitsu was X-rayed and tested to a fare-thee-well...