Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fail they did, and the decision was made to open the passage by capturing the shore. On the morning of April 25, 1915, 60,000 Allied troops headed toward the Dardanelles peninsula in the first great amphibious land assault of modern times. In an age when armored landing craft were practically unknown, British, French and Anzacs went ashore in a flotilla of paddle steamers, trawlers, yachts and river tugs. Scarcely a naval gun boomed to soften up the Turkish beaches before them: the warships at Gallipoli were too busy transporting the troops. The result was carnage. At Cape Helles...
...what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America House, Ltd., devoted to selling U.S. craft products...
...opening exhibit the craft museum chose to show a 314-item cross section of new trends, ranging from Potter Peter Voulkos' hefty vase to SculptorWelder Harry Bertoia's rod and slab screen in bronze and chrome. Pointing out that the exhibit will travel, Aileen Osborn Webb said that she does not "think of the museum as a New York activity." By sending shows on tour she hopes to raise standards and open new horizons for creative craftsmen all over...
...booming Gulf Coast oil industry, which last year shipped out some 25 million tons of petroleum products, more than half of all the waterway's traffic. From New Orleans' Harvey Lock southward, the water is lined solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells...
Normal Vane, apparently a newcomer top the craft of playwriting, sets up his characters with contrived dialogue and them with their actions knocks them down again. The vain, colorful husband number one tells lies and most of the audience understands why; he is so pitiful that he should inspire our sympathy; but in the end he goes away unrewarded. The wife, frustrated in her quest for security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered...