Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the Sherif had asserted that Ware, in the hasty trip to Camilla hospital, had been slumped over, Minter had him sitting up straight. When asked to demonstrate how Ware, from an erect position, could bite the Sheriff, Minter leaned stiffly to the left and with a quick jerk of his head took a chomp...
...deliberately write off the great industrial states of the North, that it write off the big cities, and that it direct its appeal primarily to the electoral votes of the South, plus the West and a scattering of other states. The transparent purpose behind this plan is to erect political power on the outlawed and immoral base of segregation, and to transform the Republican Party from a national party of all the people to a sectional party for some of the people...
During his recent trip to Europe, President Kennedy observed in a speech delivered in West Berlin that the United States had never found it necessary to erect walls to keep its citizens in. He was, unfortunately, mistaken. Our walls are not built of bricks and cement, and they are not topped with broken glass, but they are walls just the same...
Ottaviani did not have to finish; with one voice the crowd shouted back the last name: "Montini! Montini!" Smiling broadly, Ottaviani completed his traditional announcement: ". . . who has taken the name of Paul VI." There were gasps and applause. Then, as the slight (5 ft. 10 in., 154 Ibs.), erect new Pope, his white-cassocked figure almost engulfed beneath a broad red stole, stepped out to give his first blessing to the city and to the world, he was greeted by a thunderous shout that welled up from the sea of waving handkerchiefs. His graceful, austere gestures reminded many of Pius...
...cost $9,000,000 worth of unrepatriated pesetas to erect a fullscale replica of Peking in the plains of Spain, to populate it with 6,500 assorted movie stars, Spaniards and Chinese extras, and to blow the whole thing up at the end. Pictorially, the film is magnificent, and some of the handsomest scenes-an orange sun rising over the peaks of the Forbidden City, midnight pyrotechnics as the Imperial arsenal blows up, the gates of the great Tartar Wall being stormed by Boxers in scarlet turbans-are almost as good as the evocative paintings by Water-colorist Dong Kingman...