Word: display
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walker, a tough Texan, returned the letter unopened. Governor Faubus, playing his little game, had already released it to the press. Two days later, asked for documented facts, the governor fell back upon his favorite saying: "I do not choose to release them at this time." He did, however, display news photographs of a paratrooper general and aides walking past girls playing softball outside the school. What connection could these pictures have with his other charges? Said Faubus with rubber logic: "There may not be any connection. These, perhaps, can be explained as being part of their duties...
...month) they renew that faith in celebrating the anniversary of the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic by Dr. Sun Yatsen. Last week, on a bright, breezy day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek watched his U.S.-equipped Nationalist army roll by in an impressive display of motorized armor. Overhead Chinese and U.S. jets left vapor trails above the fleecy clouds...
...scale model is currently on display in Lamont Library. Originally only a working model, it has become a prop for the Program for Harvard College. Teele stated that the Planning Office had "accelerated construction by about a year" in order that the model might be shown to alumni throughout the country...
When the secretary informed Dahanayake of Gluck's arrival"one morning last week, the minister snapped: "I have no time for ambassadors." Appalled at this public display of discourtesy, recorded by waiting newsmen, one of Dahanayake's juniors finally persuaded the minister to receive Gluck. Dahanayake reluctantly assented, but bore down hard on his caller. "Mr. Gluck," said the Education Minister, "the embassies here have been of no use to the education needs of this country, and I consider them merely appendages of modern civilization...
Unlike Western ballet, where the body is revealed, these Indian dancers never put the body on display. Theirs is an art of angles rather than curves. To shape the angles, Indian performers exercise muscles not usually used by Western dancers. Hands are incessantly occupied with mudras, the eloquent and elegant Hindu language of the hands. Head, neck, facial muscles, eyes, even eyebrows contribute. To reveal only the whites, wide-eyed dancers conceal the iris under the upper or lower lid, and Shanta Rao can make either one of her eyebrows dance up her forehead while the other is kept immobile...