Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usually hunts by himself, preferring to rely on his own knowledge of his mountains. In the early '30s, he started after a lost lawyer by guessing that he would have headed for the highest minaret in the area. Coming upon a pile of rocks of the sort climbers erect as trail markers, Clyde found fresh grass underneath. Clyde reasoned that the missing lawyer had recently built the pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde. "But I couldn't find anything there, not even...
...defense. Today Kahn believes that the modern city will renew itself around the principle of movement. His fertile imagination visualizes the idea in terms of a river. Great expressways would channel traffic around and beneath the city's center, raised like some Venetian island. As docks. Kahn would erect harbor buildings with parking spaces on the lower levels, a roof plaza with apartments and offices above...
...animal excitement. "Singing with her," says a La Scala tenor, "can be pretty tough on a hot-blooded Sicilian like me." Even on La Scala's great stage, Mezzo Lane's voice was opulent and brilliant, rich as piled velvet. When she went to her death, proudly erect and dressed in white lace, the house burst into round after round of applause...