Word: erect
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...also remains unseen) becomes the central symbol of the play--for Hedvig, for Hjalmer, and for the Ekdal family as a whole. Into this tranquil little world blunders the well-meaning but clumsy idealist Gregers, whose efforts to clear away the "swamp gases" of deceit and in its place erect a "foundation of truth" only end in destroying it beyond repair...
...whether or not many of us would put terribly much stock in a statue with a pointy finger, we can all envy the assurances that it brought the people of that great city. Indeed, what is the analysis of American foreign policy, if not the conscious effort to erect a prophetic column of our own, pointing the way to our enemies, present and future? So, in what direction or directions should our finger be pointing? Where are the threats and enemies of freedom, and from where will they come...
...closing of the Fort Devens Army base, on the outskirts of town, which formerly housed 6,000 military personnel. On the newly vacant 4,000 acres of land, Gilette Inc., the razor maker, plans a distribution facility, and the Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons will erect a prison hospital--only the second in New England...
...closing of the Fort Devens Army base, on the outskirts of town, which formerly housed 6,000 military personnel. On the newly vacant 4,000 acres of land, Gilette Inc., the razor maker, plans a distribution facility, and the Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons will erect a prison hospital--only the second in New England...
...first to be identified and courted as a lucrative sub-adult market. They viewed the carefully polished romance of the Kennedy Administration during the years when they themselves were most passionate and idealistic. Then came Nov. 22, 1963, and the four days following, when the widowed Jackie stood erect, masking her grief under the gaze of a nation convulsed...