Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still Fighting. One night a familiar scene flashed on television. At a Louis XV desk in the library of the Elysée Palace sat De Gaulle, erect as an Alp, puffed face serene, aging voice steady. His words were blunt: unless the French electorate not only votes yes in the referendum, but does so by a massive margin, "my task will be ended, immediately and irrevocably." De Gaulle concluded: "But if, as I hope, as I am sure, you answer me yes once more, then I shall be confirmed by all of you in the burden I bear...
...this unprecedented achievement. Only one group went unmentioned, the men who built these edifices-the bricklayers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, operating engineers, lathers, in short, the building tradesmen, those who brave freezing weather, driving rains, torrid sunshine and who sometimes gamble-and lose-life and limb to erect these grandiose edifices...
Dapper and erect at 58, Hawkins dominates the bandstand. Body swaying slightly, he shuts his eyes as he uncoils his long, looping solos with their artfully building figurations, their insistently driving rhythms, their soaring air of abandon. In such numbers as Groovin' or Moonglow, Hawkins' sax capers in a loose-jointed way that mirrors the musician's pleasure; in Think Deep, say, or When Day Is Done, the style remains as virile as ever, but the tone becomes even warmer and more open-throated-mellow in a manner that Saxophone Inventor Adolphe Sax (1814-94) would never...
...band finds food, but things begin to go strangely wrong. Their best hunter does not return from a foray. The two children are stolen. Finally, the Neanderthals discover their enemies. They are a tall, erect race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...
...Coal Miner Arnold Smith, 46, has been so completely freed of the palsy that he has taken up a new career as a physiotherapy aide at the Whitesburg Memorial Hospital in Kentucky. Remarkably erect Joan Harris, now 15, of Larchmont, N.Y., is doing well in school. The boy, 13, is as straight as a spruce, and supple as a birch...