Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With his stony expression, his dark glasses and dark civilian suits, the erect little man who flew into Washington last week sometimes looked like a bad 'un out of a foreign-intrigue movie. But Chung Hee Park, 44, the South Korean leader who normally wears the olive drab uniform of a four-star general, had little reason to smile, and he was keeping his military trappings out of sight for good purpose. His trip was aimed at winning Administration support for the military dictatorship he set up in South Korea last May with the avowed goal of rooting...
...small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest against war and against Franco, Gonzalez shows the Montserrat broken, reduced to her knees, her mouth twisted in an agonized scream...
...mind, as Author Waller suggests, millions of others shared Haupt-mann's guilt. "They," he had told his wife when it happened, "have stolen our baby." To Lindbergh, "they" meant the clamoring public, seeking to haul down the wall of privacy that he sought desperately to erect about his family life...
Sending Catholic children to public schools, argued Casey, will help "avoid most of the less pleasant by-products of separatism and inbreeding." Moreover, ''we will all be relieved of the financial strain that so distorts our devotions and parish programs. The parishes will not have to erect the enormous bingo signs that disfigure all the church lawns in certain areas, nor run a lot of novenas for palpably profit motives. Sunday Mass will not take on the quality of a fly trap designed to hold the people until three collections are taken...
...with the Hatch. So far, the shoot had been a creditable demonstration of space virtuosity. Arriving two minutes after impact, the helicopters found the Liberty Bell 7 standing erect in the water. For unexplained reasons, Grissom first radioed from the capsule that he was ready to leave, then said: "Give me three or four minutes. I will be ready for you." Actually, he spent 11 minutes inside, presumably checking instruments. As one helicopter circled the capsule in an effort to cut the capsule's antenna before attaching a cable, Grissom announced suddenly: "I am going to have to take...