Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor is not tall, but well built, and his congenial smile reminds some of his constituents of England's King George VI. Single, but willing, he attends "the fights" regularly. He thinks Radcliffe girls "stack up well" with the local product...
...Hartford Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams explained the President's position vis-à-vis his party. Said Adams: "There is one accomplishment that I happen to know the President of the U.S. hopes to achieve during these four years. It is this-that the Republican Party shall be built into an effective and dominating force in American politics. He speaks of this, not in any narrow partisan sense, but from his point of view that a national need exists for an organism that reflects the platform, principles and objectives for which he has stood." In Pittsburgh U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot...
...house," he wrote in 1871, when already there had been 140 years to fill it "with harmless ghosts walking in the corridors." A house had stood on the same site since the founding of Cambridge in the 1630s, but he was referring to the "Gambrel-roofed house" built in 1730, barely four years after Wadsworth House, which (if you ignore the latter's brick bustle) it exactly resembled. The house was privately owned until 1871, but its close ties to the University began with the moving in of Jonathan Hastings Jr., A.B. 1730, who was Harvard's steward for thirty...
...Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room. They found the central bell system and sent the White House staff scurrying up and down stairs in a dither over the President's safety. The "dear codgers" built a sled in the attic out of an old chair, with a copy of the Congressional Record for a seat, and improvised snow flurries from a binful of visiting cards left by guests...
Trabert, as well-built as any halfback, was the better tennis player Saturday night, but Gonzales was undeniably the center of attention. He lurked about the court like a great cat, did not mile once in the singles, and generally looked positively menacing...