Word: erecting
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Each evening we sat erect, hands clasped on desks, while she told us, "Boys and girls, you are just one day nearer your grave...
...week the slogan was enlarged. It is now also "The Year of the Firing Squad." The announcement was made by Cuba's Agrarian Reform Chief Antonio Núñez Jiménez in a speech to a crowd of gun-toting militiamen. Added the Reformer: "We will erect the most formidable execution wall in the history of humanity...
...Still erect and handsome, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur celebrated his 81st birthday in Manhattan as guest of honor at the 14th annual reunion of the senior officers of his World War II Southwest Pacific Area Command. The stag dinner, which is always held on MacArthur's birthday, is virtually his only public appearance. So successfully has the old soldier faded away that he never gives an interview, seldom leaves his Waldorf Towers hermitage, even to preside as board chairman at executive meetings of Sperry Rand Corp...
...Calder vaguely remembers him as "a remote, awe-inspiring (because he worked on such huge things) figure for me." Indeed, Grandfather's works ran to the heroic. Among his most famous works, a model of which is in the show: an erect, earnest-looking young William Penn who stands to this day, every bronze ruffle and curl in p!ace, on top of Philadelphia's city hall...
Technology, placed at the service of the church, makes possible more audacity in design. For the Benedictine monastery church of St. John's at Collegeville, Minn., Marcel Breuer has flung skyward a 112-ft.-high bell banner utilizing reinforced concrete and parabolic curves to erect a vertical cantilever, a form that Architect Breuer thinks as expressive of the mid-20th century as the Byzantine dome and Gothic arch and spire were of their times...