Word: clapboarded
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...Cape Highway, the land is low, sparsely covered with sickly shrubs, the snow peeled away by efficient state workers. If you had taken the scenic route, you would have seen the familiar clapboard houses, the mansions, the frozen sand dunes, the cranberry bogs frosted with icy time...
...convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...
...administrators and hard-nosed board members, or between visionary boards and a skeptical public. Generally, the test of his adjudication comes when taxpayers vote on a bond issue; he does not get his full .5% commission unless the issue passes and plans are approved. Working nationwide out of a clapboard rural headquarters in tiny Purdy Station, N.Y., his firm of Engelhardt, Engelhardt and Leggett now proposes some $380 million in school construction a year, compared with $147 million ten years ago. It wins about 95% of the elections on which it is consulted...
These professionals live and learn in absolute informality under the guidance of Serkin and, since 1960, Cellist Pablo Casals, who annually makes the trip from Puerto Rico just for the festival. A clapboard barn has been turned into a communal dining room and studio; a second violin might rub elbows with Eugene Ormandy over a dish of veal and boiled potatoes, and everybody takes a turn at doing the waiting chores; last weekend two of the men on duty were Max Rabinovitsj, concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony, and Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet...
...year) on their airy 381 acres of rolling greenery. They are not formally graded. No specific courses or credits are required. With the guidance of a faculty counselor they can map their own path toward a degree. They have social freedom as well: they can leave their white clapboard houses any evening, stay out overnight, keep liquor in their cabinets, have men in their rooms until 11 p.m. on weekends...