Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style eloquence in Arabic, Spanish, French, Persian and Hebrew. Peres...
...makings of a revolution in architecture, because it puts the horizontal steel-in tension principles that apply to suspension bridges into a vertical context. The wires, in a state of tension, keep the mast unbending and rigid. The aluminum tubes, arranged like pairs of end-to-end coat hangers (see cut), push the wires apart to keep them taut. An exact balance of push-and-pull makes the tower stand...
...achieved my goals and even surpassed them," Kubitschek said as he sprawled out in his personal turboprop Viscount, his shoes, coat and tie off, and his toes wriggling happily. "They say it's madness to go so fast. We have to go fast. We have 63 million people and nearly 2,000,000 more people every year to feed, clothe, to supply with power and tools and the essentials of life." He points to his record: 1956 auto production zero, this year 170,000; 1956 oil production 5,000 bbl. a day, this year...
Lynn was good company at sea. She cheerfully pressed the uniforms for some of the ship's officers, and Van Rie's coat was later found in her cabin. Some passengers thought that Juanita Spector had seemed annoyed at Lynn's behavior, heard rumors that Juanita no longer welcomed her in the Spector household...
...into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other ways for a girl to keep warm"), he expressed the wisdom of the cafes in the lift of an eyebrow, the cynical, gallic turn of a wrist...