Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many Americans were inclined to think that the Israelis had put themselves in the wrong by going into Egypt, and ought to get out of there. But in the U.S. as well as elsewhere around the world, sympathy had built up for Ben-Gurion's position. Last week the Israeli government in Jerusalem and its consulates overseas reported receiving thousands of letters of support from places as far apart as Bangkok and Bangor, Me., Stockholm and Santa Ana, Calif. Samples: "Don't surrender to Nasserism"; "Stick to your guns and positions"; "Call Ike's bluff...
...press-have attracted as much public attention as the sober hard work of all his brothers combined. Four years ago, hoping to get away from it all, Winthrop forsook the cabarets of Manhattan for the hills of Arkansas. There, on a ridge 50 miles from Little Rock, he built a magnificent, $1,500,000 cattle farm called Winrock, from which he can gaze for 40 miles across the Arkansas River valley, heart of the razorback state. Today the Arkansas that Winthrop Rockefeller views from Winrock is undergoing a startling change -and he is responsible for much of it. "We thought...
...machine is to be run jointly by Harvard and M.I.T., although it is to be built with funds from the AEC. The cost is expected to be in the range of 6.5 million dollars, and it will be the largest of its type in the world. The projected date of completion is some time...
Princeton's attack was built around Rulon-Miller, and although he played a very good game the Crimson defense had little trouble in stopping him. Unless he himself brought the puck up, the varsity forwards could almost always skate fast enough to take the puck away from any other Tiger lineman...
...mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this enlightened age." General Ulysses S. Grant, who on a ceremonial visit was obliged to walk halfway across, said more soberly that it was "a very long bridge...