Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops stormed back into the Philippines in 1944. He returned again in 1946 to watch as the U.S., after nearly 50 years of beneficent colonial tutelage, bestowed independence on the Philippines. Last week, to help Filipinos celebrate their 15th anniversary of freedom, the old soldier, a frail but erect 81, returned for what he himself admitted was a last "sentimental journey...
Moderate-Income Housing. To erect apartments for families too well off for low-rent public housing but too poor to own houses, FHA would insure 100%, 40-year, low-interest loans to limited and nonprofit groups. Private builders bitterly complain that the program will let FHA subsidize housing for an income group that can pay its own way. Under the program, charge its critics, housing authorities can build two-bedroom apartments to rent for as little as $90 a month-approximately $20 a month under the current market...
General Zeller seemed distracted, kept losing his place in his notes and finally sat down, despairingly putting a hand to his eyes as if saying to himself, "What imbecility! To risk my life for this!" General Challe, erect and unrepentant, spoke eloquently, if not always to the point. Challe thought his insurrection had been aimed at saving Algeria's Moslems from the clasp of the F.L.N. rebels...
Harvard has an obligation to LeCorbusier, to architecture, and to itself to erect the designer's building as he wanted...
...empty expanses of Islamabad, the new capital that Pakistan plans to erect in the cool foothills of the Himalayas, the first buildings scheduled to go up are a cluster of airy structures designed by famed US. Architect Edward Stone. Set in a cloistered water garden, the biggest of Stone's buildings will house Pakistan's first nuclear reactor-one of the latest sales made by New York's booming American Machine & Foundry...