Word: crystallizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crystal chandeliers in the U.S. Capitol had been taken down, disassembled, washed prism by prism, reassembled and rehung. Twenty-two painters had brushed their way across Capitol Hill, cleaning and painting walls. By this week all was in readiness for the fall of the gavel opening the second session of the 84th Congress...
Weary of trying to plumb the future with mere logic and female intuition, Washington Political Gossipist Ruth Montgomery pilgrimaged to the crystal ball of an uncanny lady named Jeane Dixon, an amateur seeress-astrologist whose predictions have often become next year's headlines.*What Jeane told Ruth: Ike will be re-elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck...
...League basketball coaches gazed into their collective crystal yesterday and predicted gloom for the Crimson. The final standings, they say: Dartmouth, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Penn, Harvard and Brown...
Inside the palace he found a sultanic shambles. The palace furnishings, once a vast treasure, had been smashed or looted by French police and local vandals. Of his collection of 60 clocks, four remained; of hundreds of porcelain and crystal vases, one. Gone were the royal family photo albums, as well as the Sultan's 56 cars, trucks and buses, which the French government had sold off. Where once was a private zoo, only three gazelles and an ostrich remained. Muttered Mohammed...
...writers try to strike through to some final statement. There to pears to be an acute fear of being misunderstood. If the point of a story is meant to be ambiguous, then it is made murky. If the point is supposed to be clear, then it is made crystal-clear. This general criticism is not directed against a lack of narrative skill, but against a failure by many of the contributors to make efficient use of such skill...