Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead loomed a real threat to the economic health built up over the past twelve months: the United Steelworkers' demands for fat "general contract improvement" when current contracts with the steel companies run out on June 30. (Since January the Steelworkers have been running weekly newspaper advertisements touting the national economic benefits that would flow from an "Extra Billion Dollars" in Steelworkers' hands.) Big wage or fringe-benefit boosts in steel, with or without a strike, might well touch off a new wage-price spiral. Against that threat President Eisenhower gave stern warning at his news conference last...
Nyasaland. In the third and most primitive of the three federal states, the days were full of the sounds of new detention camps being built to hold African supporters of the volatile Dr. Hastings Banda (see box). Already 560 were being detained. Sir Roy has yet to reveal the evidence that there had ever been a black plot to massacre the whites-the major excuse in the first place for the wave of repression that had so far killed 50 Nyasa blacks but no whites. Neither had anybody proved that the blacks of Northern Rhodesia were about...
Career. Settling down in the lower-class Kilburn district of London, he gradually built up a thriving practice of 4,000 patients, most of them white. His modest home became a favorite meeting place for such future African leaders as Jomo Kenyatta and Kwame Nkrumah, who called him affectionately "G.P." or "the Doc." Intense and impassioned about his native Nyasaland, he became increasingly bitter after the Federation was formed in 1953. "The Nyasas," he insisted, "have been deceived by a people whom they had grown to regard as Christian and honest, and betrayed by a government which for 60 years...
...fourth century Emperor Constantine built the first basilica of St. Peter's on the site of his supposed tomb in an ancient cemetery, and in the present 16th century basilica, the tomb of Peter traditionally lies beneath the Altar of the Confession (reserved to the Pope himself). Over the past 20 years, careful digging has uncovered a number of Christian tombs beneath the altar, with the strong probability that one of them was Peter's; but there was no name or sign to mark it-only a maze of graffiti, scratchings of names, initials and symbols...
...concert, Harvard University's Busch-Reisinger Museum provided its new Dutch-built Flentrop tracker organ, the only one in the U.S. designed for concert purposes. Because the tracker organ operates by direct key-to-valve action, it avoids the breathy sonorities of electrically controlled organs, has an articulate, percussive quality well suited to the rapid trills and runs of 18th century organ style. With Biggs playing the Flentrop and Pinkham * operating a smaller 18th century organ moved in especially for the occasion, the concert unfolded as a gaily trip-hammered dialogue in which one instrument occasionally laid down...