Word: erect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon requested tough new powers to retaliate against countries that erect "unfair" barriers to American exports, or unfairly subsidize their own foreign commerce. Nixon also asked Congress for changes in current law to make it easier for industries, companies or groups of workers that have been hurt by imports to win relief through temporary import restrictions. "To be fair to our trading partners does not require us to be unfair to our own people," he said...
...headed down the street to a VFW post which was to be our first stop. Suddenly Vellucci started backing the car up. There was a site he'd forgotten to show us. An old factory building, deserted, stood on the site where M.I.T. will erect a 250-unit project for old people. Vellucci was strangely enthusiastic about it. He dwelled on M.I.T.'s good faith, their genuine concern for the plight of Cambridge...
...Stuart's Flautist from the Black King painted by Hieronymus Bosch. The King is Caspar, the Moorish monarch and one of the Three Magi. He dominates Bosch's Epiphany at the Prado Museum in Madrid. The other Magi kneel to adore Jesus. Caspar, by contrast, stands splendidly erect. He is waiting to offer a silver coffer of myrrh: burial ointment nestled in a symbolic world egg. Within himself, one feels, Caspar holds greater treasures than the one between his calm hands...
...creature called Australopithecus (southern ape), who, in turn, has long been accepted by scientists as being man's most immediate ancestor among the primates. Unlike the ape: who lived with him in East Africa, the short (just over 4 ft.), heavy-jawed man ape, Australopithecus, stood erect, eating meat as well as fruits and vegetables and was probably the first creature to make and use tools of stone.* Until recently, most paleontologists were certain that Australopithecus lived no more thar 2,000,000 years ago-or at least 6,000, 000 years after Rama. The Yalemen's discovery...
...English, Britain's Prince Charles last week spoke those modest words to his countrymen in response to his in vestiture as Prince of Wales. Around the world millions watched the four hours of panoply and pageantry over satellite TV transmission. What the world saw was a slim, erect young man moving slowly and somewhat stiffly at first through one of royalty's rich, ancient rituals. But for the 80,000 or so who crowded in and around the ancient castle of Caernarvon, the mixture of Welsh informality and London modishness that marked the occasion made it a kind...