Word: erect
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...Polynesian islanders of Tonga, a British protectorate 850 miles northeast of New Zealand. The stately figure of their beloved Queen Salote (6 ft. 3 in., 280 Ibs.) was widely admired during Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession in London in 1953, when Salote rode proudly erect in the pouring rain without benefit of hat or umbrella; Tongans do not cover themselves in the presence of superiors. Salote died in 1965. Last week her son, Taufa' Ahau Tupou, 49, 6 ft. 3 in. and 300 Ibs., formally ascended the throne...
...woman without a whip," You had said something of the sort, Old Zarathrustra. Yet I have seen a photograph of Lou Salome With a whip in her hand, And you her horse in harness, Your Walrus moustaches erect with pleasure. Yes, a horse. You whipped a horse...
Sitting ramrod-erect at his ornate Louis XV desk in Elysee Palace, President Charles de Gaulle reaches out occasionally to snap on a loudspeaker dubbed le perroquet (the parrot) that permits him to listen to debate in the National Assembly. Lately the parrot has gone wild with a cacophony of shouting, desktop banging and name-calling that led in one embarrassing instance to a sword duel between two incensed Deputies. The sounds from the box have made painfully clear to De Gaulle that the mere plurality that Gaullists drew in the March parliamentary elections has transformed the comfortably rubber-stamping...
...president of Parsons, once a financially starved Presbyterian school, Roberts has methodically carried out his program for success. He increased Parsons' enrollment from 212 to 4,900, and upped student fees from $1,030 a year to $1,160 a trimester. Roberts has been able to erect $20 million worth of buildings on campus and push the average faculty pay from about $3,000 a year to more than $15,000-third highest in the nation. This year, while almost every school in the nation is running bigger deficits than ever, Parsons recently reported a neat annual profit...
...Wash ington Place where he was born, and found the site occupied by a dreary clothing factory. "Its effect for me," he wrote later, "was of having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument at the birthplace of a man who had made his mark in American letters. Now New York University has corrected the oversight by unveiling a plaque on its Brown Building on Washington Place: NEAR...