Word: cementing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zukor's 80th birthday, and Hollywood associates and friends decided to celebrate. They whisked the old man off to the West Coast, where he was whirled through luncheons, press conferences and interviews. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, Zukor arrived by limousine to place his footprints in wet cement near those of such immortals as Betty Grable and Ava Gardner; the event went off without a hitch except for a slight delay when Zukor insisted on removing his good black shoes and substituting an old pair...
...book is a warm tribute to U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen who made Britain their home for a period during the war, as well as a sincere effort to cement good will between the two largest English-speaking nations. That feeling is best typified in one sentence of a message from Winston Churchill, opposite the frontispiece: "To those who did not return the best memorial is the fellowship of our two countries, which by their valour they created and by their sacrifice they have preserved...
While trade and industrial output have increased on the whole, construction has slowed down. A recently built model city, Titograd, in Montenegro stands half-finished and deserted. The ugly, square, cement hotel, a huge department store, administration buildings are surrounded by open spaces and ruins of the old town. Another mark of prestige, the excellent cement highway between Belgrade and Zagreb conveys more hay-wagons than cars...
With all this, the Democratic Party is obviously neither dead nor dying-but its leaves look healthier than its roots. The Eisenhower victory broke both ends of the Roosevelt coalition-both the Southern conservatives and the Northern cities. This is the kind of coalition that needs the cement of power; in opposition, the parts are almost certain to increase their internal strife. Many 1952 Democratic voters stayed with the party out of fear that the Republicans would "take it away." No answer to that in words can possibly be so effective as an answer in facts. If the Republicans...
...Crooner Sinatra reportedly called in the police to help in getting Ava out of their Palm Springs house), briefly reappeared. Dropping over to the famed handprinted-footprinted pavement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Ava delicately planted a sandaled foot in a block of wet cement, thereby establishing herself solidly for posterity as a certified movie queen...