Word: downward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three major areas is kept from buckling by impromptu wooden supports. So many records and books-including 300 copies each of the 17,000 bills introduced in the House this year-are stored in the Capitol attic above the west front that the old walls are under a downward pressure of an estimated 1,000 lbs. per sq. ft., which is four times as much weight as modern, specially strengthened storage buildings are designed to carry. A few weeks back, a 40-lb. chunk of stone plummeted from the facade to the ground below; now Congressmen and visitors have...
...squinted when a rock-'n'-roll band moved onto the beach and began blasting away in the hot afternoon sun. Then, in quick succession, giant, helium-filled balloons took off skyward, a red smoke bomb exploded, and from a plane overhead four hired sky divers plummeted downward. The doings brought crowds running from all along the beach, but Kaprow was unhappy: "I was looking for more surprises, and everything came out very orderly." It almost didn't. Two of the parachutists missed the beach by a wide margin and landed in the ocean, and suddenly...
...funeral procession cuts its way through the streets of a small Spanish village with a huge, elaborately decorated altar in the middle of the procession. Rosi's camera, plays upon the decorations of the altar and the placid smile on a statue of the Virgin Mary and then tilts downward to the miserable peasant boys who must carry the altar on their shoulders. Throughout the film, trappings constantly give way to sordid details in this...
TIME and its reporters were banned in Indonesia in 1961, and President Sukarno has never been secretive about his opinion of our coverage, which sharply delineated the country's downward slide under his capricious rule. The situation drastically changed last September when an attempted Communist takeover was put down by the army, and the generals began to maneuver Sukarno into the background...
...jawbone but leaving a space where the lower cut was made. Where nonalignment is too great to be corrected by an operation on the lower jaw alone, Dr. Obwegeser may move all or part of the upper jaw. With remarkable versatility, he can even move it upward or downward, sometimes removing small pieces of bone to achieve the desired repositioning (see diagram) and using the chips to space out the lower jaw. Bone from a receding chin may be removed and replaced at the front...