Word: discords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Discord...
Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue (at 88th Street), opened to the public last week. Discord and controversy had marked it since the day it was commissioned 16 years ago. Wright had proposed "one great space on a continuous floor," a gigantic, uncoiling drum of reinforced concrete that swelled outward as it rose, carrying within more than one-quarter mile of continuous ramps sloping upward six stories to a great glass dome...
...major Socialist split had been averted, but the discord, which was there for all to see, would make it easier for Kishi to sell the public on his proposed new pact with the U.S.; in fact, according to the pollsters, a surprising 63% of the people were now in favor of his treaty proposals...
...Rambler owner inject a note of discord into your paean for American Motors' George Romney. My 1955 Rambler Cross-Country wagon is now on its sixth water pump, fourth set of universal joints, has never done better than 17 miles to the gallon, and lacks power enough to operate the air-conditioning unit and still allow normal speed...
...most jangling discord came from spade-bearded Mitch Miller, director of Columbia Records' popular division and sometime oboist, who usually seeks the disk jockeys' favor. Lectured Miller...