Word: containing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little-known outsider; Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell, who had never much appreciated his rising young assistant, was simply chagrined. "Francis," he said, "epitomizes what happens to a bookkeeper when you teach him how to read." The comment was neither charitable nor accurate, but it did contain at least one grain of truth. In 28 years, Spellman put up the greatest mass of ecclesiastical building in history-well over $500 million for schools, churches and other institutions-earning for himself an unquestioned reputation as the church's master builder...
...wife's room when she leaves him. But in Welles's film, Kane's sole object is the furniture; in Prince Erie, the finite playing area itself cramps Fisk, and he becomes undisciplined energy trying, I suspect, to break the walls down, also Jersey City, anything that threatens to contain him. "Jersey City is our old bath water," bellows Fisk, "and we don't need it anymore." Blackout...
Admittedly, the two issues of Avatar contain large heaps of four-letter words; used gratuitously like punctuation marks; stuck coherently together in crude metaphoric diatribes against Cambridge officials; strikingly isolated in a center fold...
...letters to her, often smuggled out by a sympathetic guard, contain several impressive statements of his Christian conviction. On Aug. 12, 1943, he wrote: "You cannot imagine what it means in my present situation to have you. Our union can only be a sign of God's grace and kindness, which calls us to faith. And I do not mean the faith which flees the world, but the one that endures the world. Our marriage shall be a yes to God's earth. I fear that Christians who stand with only one leg upon earth also stand with...
...cost-trimmings have left the basic design for Mather intact. The House will contain a 21-story tower flanked by three 5-story sections...