Word: crystallizer
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Owen came to Harvard as a visiting lecturer in 1937, after 15 years at Yale. He taught British history, gave the famous Crystal Palace speech--now one of Harvard's historic lectures--for the first time, and was hired as an associate professor the following year...
...year later, he'll be back in Cambridge, striding pointer in hand across the lecture platform, expounding on the Crystal Palace...
...beginning of the next Congress, he was." Johnson eventually saw to it that Baker was named secretary to the Senate Democrats. Among Baker's perquisites was a long, black Government-owned Lincoln, a big Capitol office (even if it was in the basement) with a real crystal chandelier and gold draperies. Bobby Baker was now in his element...
...warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended to prod Chou into a public expression of support against India, they failed. The two leaders toasted each other with gold-edged crystal goblets, were served by a retinue of turbaned, white-clad waiters, and exchanged platitudes about peace, friendship and Afro-Asian unity...
...every turn of his long life in jazz, Monk's hats have described him almost as well as the name his parents had the crystal vision to invent for him 43 years ago ? Thelonious Sphere Monk. It sounds like an alchemist's formula or a yoga ritual, but during the many years when its owner merely strayed through life (absurd beneath a baseball cap), it was the perfect name for the legends dreamed up to account for his sad silence. "Thelonious Monk? He's a recluse, man." In the mid-'40s, when Monk's reputation at last took hold...