Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purist and patriot, Linguist Etiemble has declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...your mother a one-night stand." At 19, he was helping his mother swindle a hotelkeeper in Belgium out of three months' food and lodging. At 20, when a young English governess refused to accept his hand in marriage, he threatened to throw her (not himself) off the cliff on which they were standing...
Ramses built the larger temple in his own honor. The four 65 foot-high colossi hewn from the cliff depict him; the has reliefs that line the chambers burrowing deep into the cliff behind them illustrate his triumphs. The pharaoh built many temples to himself, but only at Abu Simbel did dignity triumph over the vulgarity of profuse ornamentation...
...whole mass enclosed in concrete. Then, 300 synchronized hydraulic jacks would begin to raise the temple, one-sixteenth of an inch at a time. After every foot of progress, the space underneath would be filled in with concrete. The temple would eventually reach the top of the cliff supported by 186 feet of concrete. The excavated rock would provide it with a natural setting, and everything would be much as before...
UNESCO needed another plan quickly. The solution came from Sweden. The Swedes proposed cutting the temple and statues into sections, raising them to the top of the cliff and reassembling them about 1,000 feet from the present site. The whole process should cost about $36 million. The U.A.R. has promised $11.5 million and the United States $12 million in Egyptian pounds, to be taken from payments for surplus American food. With the $7.5 million already collected, UNESCO lacks only $5 million and work can safely begin...