Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comprise most of Tokyo's byways. The new roads-$470 million worth of them-will ease the burden of Tokyo's cab drivers, who have a hard time finding their way around and usually require written directions (in Japanese) to reach a destination. The reek of setting cement permeates Tokyo like a geisha's scent, and roadside cafes are mounted with plastic shields to ward off the dust stirred up by building...
Green Bird. Most of the artists created new works for the museum, and they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
Minutes after Powell fell dead on the sidewalk, other students swarmed onto the street. One girl yelled: "This is worse than Mississippi!" Another shouted at police: "Come on, shoot another nigger." The youths threw bottles, cans and pieces of cement at 75 policemen, who struggled for two hours to get the mob under control. A Negro patrolman suffered a concussion when struck...
...store groups and clothing producers. In addition, brokers now favor the rails, utilities and steels, whose production is expected to meet or exceed the 1955 record of 117 million tons. There is declining enthusiasm for the recently popular airlines, which are leveling out after a sharp climb, and the cement companies, which have suffered from trouble signs in the construction market...
...chagrin, the Crillon discovered that some of its columns were made of wood cleverly painted to simulate stone. The facade of the Invalides, where Napoleon lies buried, provided another embarrassing surprise. Pockmarked by gunfire during the liberation of Paris, it had been repaired on the cheap, with cement...