Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Alexander Papagos gave Karamanlis the thankless ministry of public works, a graveyard of politicians that had been starved of funds for years. Karamanlis moved in briskly, scraped together a budget, and in 2½ years built and resurfaced hundreds of miles of roads, brought water to thousands of acres of reclaimed land through dam and irrigation projects, replaced his native Salonika's ancient cobblestone streets with asphalt. On inspection trips he often sat down with the work gangs and shared their cheese and olives. What was even more unheard of, he clamped down on contractors, docked them...
...hearts. In 1950 he told a Peking Public Security Administration Conference that the suppression of "counterrevolutionaries" was the first necessity of the new state, that it would be a continuing necessity, and its scope and difficulties would increase rather than decrease as the revolution continued. On this thesis Lo built his rise to power...
Theoretically, said Roboff, nuclear power plants will "outperform all existing types of power-generating plants." Such plants are not now being built, he told an audience of engineers in Manhattan, because "we do not yet have materials of construction that can withstand the severity of conditions which would exist within a power reactor operating with ultrahigh power output." Some of the major kinks that must be ironed out, according to Roboff, before commercial nuclear power becomes "really attractive and generally available...
...Walter (The Incredible Flutist) Piston's Symphony No. 5, probably his best work to date. It began with something that sounded suspiciously like forest murmurs, complete with flute and pizzicato strings. But soon it built a blazing climax on a pyramid of harmonies, brass on winds on strings, in orchestration as solid as Tchaikovsky's. The first movement, indeed, was a rejuvenated Piston; in the other two, however, he reached his high points of lyricism without seeming to aim for them, leaving a feeling of puzzlement...
...pleasure domes built along Florida's Gold Coast in the late 1920s, none was more ornate than the Boca Raton Hotel & Club, 42 miles north of Miami. Put up by Utilitycoon Clarence H. Geist as the world's flossiest private resort, it cost $10 million, had 450 rooms, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, two 18-hole golf courses, dozens of fountain-filled gardens and a beach-front cabana that is bigger than most hotels. During the Depression, Geist ran Boca Raton as his private hobby, happily paid its staggering deficits. But when he died in 1938, the club...