Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meantime, Sculptor Frazier was using vacuum cleaners to inflate his 50-ft.-tall "soft skyscraper," attended by scores of shoving children. "The fun is in the struggle," exhorted Art Critic Harold Rosenberg as the plastic building listed flaccidly to and fro and finally stood erect. With that, Frazier let it topple over on the beach, where, with cries of "Kill it!", the children ripped it to shreds in a scene right out of Lord of the Flies...
...skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three other Ro man companies, including a firm called Vianini, in which the Vatican is the largest shareholder, recently won a $40 million order from the Libyan govern ment to broaden 1,483 miles of coastal highway and erect 46 bridges...
...commencement speaker at Kansas State University seemed remarkably spry. But under the erect military bearing, the painful truth was that former President Dwight Eisenhower has not fully recovered from the pains in his joints that put him in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center little more than a month ago. Nor is he likely to-a frustrating situation that leaves him no worse off than countless other Americans over 50, who experience physical changes, often painful, involving their joints...
...University should not be pacified by the MDC's intention of eventually lighting up the entire riverbank. More spotlights could easily be attached to the existing poles, while it will take some time for the MDC to erect new poles on both sides of the river. And if none of the new poles are closer to the bridge than the ones constructed last week, the MDC's plan will do little to make the Weeks Bridge any safer...
...Woodmen firm, which had considered leaving Omaha before Sorensen took over, then decided to erect on the old City Hall site a new $20 million building that, at 28 stories, will be Omaha's highest. A savings and loan association followed with a decision to put up a 15-story building. Both companies cited "a changed climate in the mayor's office" as a major factor in their decisions to put up the largest downtown offices built in the city since the 1920s. Sorensen also attacked discrimination in Omaha (10% of the population is Negro) more determinedly than...