Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...door was posted a thin, erect policeman, looking like one of the tin soldiers off the toy shelf. He munched on a donut as he serenely contemplated the war of all against...
...began his dissonant, yet moving, intonation of the Mass: "Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon him." Suddenly Charles de Gaulle stood upright, facing the altar. He was joined by Emperor Selassie and King Baudouin, and the three chiefs of state stood alone, erect and rigid. Later, because it was a Kennedy favorite, the third chapter of Ecclesiastes was read-almost in monotone-by the Most Rev. Philip M. Hannan, Auxiliary Bishop of Washington: "There is an appointed time for everything ... a time to be born, and a time to die ... a time...
...Duke Max Joseph, struck with the beauty of the Theatre de l'Odéon in Paris, had decreed that his court erect an improved replica; though Munich at the time had only 35,000 inhabitants, the theater was built to full Parisian scale, at a cost of 800,000 gold ducats-plus free building materials contributed by unenthusiastic peasants. Only five years after its opening, though, the building burned to the ground. Duke Max watched the blaze and wailed through his tears: "I won't survive this loss-my theater, my beautiful theater...
...Became erect and held the pose because
...prize is Schneider & Cie., whose sales of $512 million last year came from its dominance of 40 companies with interests in mining, manufacturing, banking and real estate throughout Europe, Latin America, Canada and Australia. The leading figure in this family company is Liliane Schneider, who at 61 is tall, erect, smooth-skinned and almost as handsome as when she starred in such French film confections of the 1920s as The She-Goat with Golden Feet. Liliane married Heir Charles Schneider in 1931, started working at his side in 1942 and succeeded him as co-manager of Schneider after his death...