Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patrons in the orchestra seats cheered, and the drummer began his slow off-beat as the first of the girls, Peggy O'Grady, casually undressed. Then came Marie Voe and Nony ("A Bit of TNT from Paree"). Queen of them all was a blonde relentlessly billed as "Miss Crystal Star," who took almost ten minutes to give her G-string...
...Truth is not a crystal one can put in one's pocket, but an infinite fluid into which one falls headlong...
...rulers were as strongly pro-U.S. as Ali, so Washington seemed as calm as Karachi. And as for Ali, now a figurehead Prime Minister, he finally called in reporters and said he was loyal to Ghulam. What would he do next? "I must gaze into a crystal I brought back from the U.S.," said Mohammed Ali, producing a miniature eight ball...
...Enrico Caruso fled from the hotel with a towel wrapped around his neck and clutching an autographed picture of Teddy Roosevelt), but a new 600-room, $8,000,000 Palace was quickly built. Most notable feature: the Garden Court dining room, with its domed glass ceiling, marble pillars and crystal chandeliers...
...best place to mount it, the planners decided, was 56 feet below the surface of the bay of San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofmo. There the waters were almost crystal-clear, so that the statue would be visible from above. Many a sea faring man had lost his life there - nearby the Genoese lost a bloody naval battle with the Venetians in 1431 and the British frigate Croesus went down...