Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blue (his best color) suit, took the Senate floor to denounce the civil rights bill as nothing but another Reconstruction-style force bill, "cunningly contrived," based on bayonet rule, and designed to "destroy the separate system for the races on which the social order of the Southern states is built...
...Tokyo the time of the rains had passed and hot and humid summer settled firmly in on the rickety, raucous, jerry-built capital that has sprung up from the ashes and rubble of 1945. Tokyo, Japan's capital since 1868, was before World War II a sort of oriental Washington, D.C. Officially, only a limited number of nightclubs were permitted in the capital, and the sword-swinging prewar Japanese police force saw to it that decorum was the order of the day as well as the night. Now all this has changed. In twelve feverish, prosperous postwar years, Tokyo...
...permanent bids from the Berlin Municipal Opera and from Hamburg (he has not made up his mind) and invitations to guest-conduct most of the great orchestras of Europe. The Vienna State Opera and the San Francisco Opera both want him as their guest. And in Germany he has built a personal following so rapidly that last year the Berlin Philharmonic did not even bother to advertise his sold-out guest appearances...
London's oldest parish church is All Hallows By the Tower, founded as a convent by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, about 675. Richard the Lionhearted built a chapel in its churchyard; Edward the Confessor gave it a statue of the Virgin. The Great Seal of England was once guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys...
...Meaning "towers," for the towering factories and office buildings he has built as an industrialist...