Word: cement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most convincing account shows that because of poor weather and other complications, Washington could not have accepted command under this elm. Yet for years afterward, the tree was nursed and trimmed to a ripe old age of 202. Then in 1923, the poor, wretched elm, filled with cement and braced with iron, crashed to the ground. Unwilling to give up its symbolic ghost, the city government sent bunks of the main trunk to the governors of the forty-eight states and gave out at least 1000 pieces in all, each with a metal tag. The only evidence of the tree...
...Fans Are Different. For nine months of the year, except for occasional forays with Hope, Les & Co. are set as solid as cement in Los Angeles. The take, including record royalties, is $350,000 a year. The musicians, most of whom have been with Les five to ten years, earn around $10,000 apiece, and are settled family men with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around...
...Washington Goethals was put in charge of the canal project in 1907, he made Wood a captain and boss of all recruiting, housing, and distribution of labor. Later Goethals gave him the job of requisition & purchase of supplies. He had to make good. "The day we run out of cement," growled General Goethals, "you're fired." Wood drove his men as hard as himself, and got a reputation for never speaking to a man except to fire him. He worked such long hours that "everything I've done since has seemed easy." He also learned...
Gaudi's largest and most fantastic work is Barcelona's awesome stone, iron and cement Church of the Holy Family. He spent 40 years on its honeycombed towers and the weird, grotto-like encrustations of its walls, but it was still unfinished when he died...
...barracks near Benghazi as his palace. He trusts the West, and privately refers to the seven-nation Arab League as "an alliance of weaknesses." But recognizing Libya's kinship with the rest of the Moslem world, he plans to join the Arab League. "If anybody ever succeeds in cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya, "it will be the King. The cement is Islam-these people really believe and live Islam." (The first daub of cement: a royal decree establishing two capitals, the main one in Tripoli, and the second in Benghazi to allay Cyrenaican fears...