Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just .5 sec. ahead of plan. At the halfway mark, his last challenger, Canada's Bruce Kidd, fell 15 yds. behind. All by himself, Beatty continued on-pat, pat, pat, his feet making almost no sound on the board track, his elbows wide, wrists dangling loosely, body starchly erect...
Into Court. Mayor Allen turned the matter over to the board of aldermen, which voted to erect the barriers. At 7 the following morning, workmen were on Peyton and Harlan roads driving I beams into the pavement. The Negroes of Atlanta, represented by a new All-Citizens Committee composed of most Negro organizations in the city, refused to deal with the city until the barriers come down. Negroes have lost one suit in court to have the barriers torn down, but a further test is pending before superior court in Atlanta. Last week the board of aldermen considered a resolution...
...much alike: militarily erect, grey-haired six-footers, quietly groomed. They are also enemies. Since Dec. 8, when nine New York dailies fell silent, the two men have come together many times in many rooms, with nothing in common but an avowed purpose: to get the city's newspapers back into print. In this purpose, both have signally failed. They have nothing to say to each other beyond a few cold, perfunctorily polite words. In their stubborn refusal to start meaningful negotiations, it is almost as if Bertram Anthony Powers, president of New York Local 6 of the International...
Deuteronomy 37 relates the farewell of Moses to his people, who are preparing to leave for the land in Jordan promised them by the Lord. Moses commands the people, when they arrive there, to build an altar to the Lord on Mount Ebal, which flanks Shechem, and also to erect on the site plastered stones inscribed with the laws of the covenant...
...large woman with an erect carriage, Mezzo Bumbry stood a trifle self-consciously with hands clasped and head thrown back. But when she nodded to her accompanist and opened her mouth, her rich, bronzelike voice seemed to flood the hall. Her singing was brilliant and ringing at the top; she impressed her audience with an absolute control that permitted her to fade from full voice to soft-spun pianissimi that hushed the hall to admiring silence. If her attitudes sometimes seemed stagy, she was completely natural and quietly moving in Deep River, Sweet Little Jesus Boy, Stand...