Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make a film of Greene's book, Hollywood Director Joe Mankiewicz was having trouble. He searched all the roads for miles around Saigon, could find not a single guard tower. Most towers have been dismantled; the rest have fallen into dilapidated ruins (Mankiewicz had to order one built). Greene's scruffy waterfront slum had also disappeared; Mankiewicz had to rebuild its shacks and dirty up the streets before he could begin filming...
France's Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily urged its audience to "make babies now as you never have before." Sobered by his wartime experience in the resistance, he turned increasingly to more austere works, three years ago undertook an opera based on the late Georges Bernanos' reverent drama The Dialogues of the Carmelites. In one of its rare premières of modern opera, Milan's La Scala put Poulenc...
...Caudill et al. built their school, there would be no more set schedules for classes, no separate grades for different age groups, no barriers between subjects. Nor would there be any definite dividing line between the school and the home. Their ideal campus is in the shape of an octopus whose tentacles stretch out from the Center into the residential areas, providing pupils and adults alike with "tennis courts, baseball, football, soccer fields, skating rinks, as well as bird sanctuaries, botanical gardens and nature-study groves...
Lion Follows Christian. Twenty One has built its week-to-week suspense on whether Van Doren will keep plunging or quit while he is so far ahead. By now, he risks little to keep going. It would take eleven tie games followed by a 21-0 defeat to wipe out his winnings. His income-tax bracket is so high that if he were defeated in a game that cost him, say, $20,000, he would actually be out of pocket only $2,200 (see chart). Of the $122,000 he has won, income taxes will let the unmarried...
...Strandberg predicted extraordinary powers for it. In electronic communication, the power of the transmitter might be cut to one-thousandth. The telescopes of radio astronomy might become so sensitive that astronomers would have to spend years digesting the records of a short observing period. No Versitron has been built, but Bell Telephone Laboratories, guided mainly by Dr. Strandberg's theories and those of Professor N. Bloembergen of Harvard, has tested successfully a deep-frozen device that acts as an oscillator and promises to grow into a Versitron-like amplifier. Magnetic Explosion. The magnetic fields that exist around horseshoe magnets...