Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point when hand-carved Renaissance woodwork gave way to all the sensuous, symmetrical turnings that a cabinet-maker's lathe could serve up. Finials, banderoles, and swags of fruit and flowers appeared, to give essentially stiff, straight-backed woodwork an animate touch. Table and chair legs ceased to butt into the floor, instead rested on gentler bun feet, but H-form stretchers low to the floor held the frames rigidly intact. Furniture of walnut and ebony supplanted oak because these woods take on a finer finish, and it was more likely that brocaded damsels rather than ironclad knights would...
...growing attraction of the Berkeley campus for militants and activists of all shades was proof that freedom was not being stifled. I want to make these poins now, not only because no one likes to be misunderstood, but because the Administration of the University of California has been the butt of far more criticism than it deserves...
...venture into the "worst state," so he led the way into what is probably the "worst county" in the "worst state." When he accompanied two Negroes to register at the Amite County courthouse, Moses was attacked on the street by a white, who hit him repeatedly with the butt end of a knife...
...rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor, an ex-classmate of Maxime's and the son of a washerwoman. He comes as Robespierre...
...bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks a rifle butt over a thug's skull, commandeers a speedboat and belts down a couple of drinks-all to help recover a fabulous emerald necklace...