Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request, Stuffy retired last July to the quiet of his widower's home in Wimbledon to follow the war through the newspapers. At 61 he is still a trim, erect figure, more than ever engrossed in the spiritualist studies which have long interested him. In London's Sunday Pictorial Sir Hugh was quoted last week: "I am sure that our war dead live on. ... I have read messages from them...
Permission from Palestine. Permission to erect a Bahá'i House of Worship "in the center of the Western World" was received from Abdu'l-Bahá, Bahá'u'lláh's son, in 1902. The fact that there were very few Bahá'is in the U.S. at that time made the project seem overbold. But by 1912 the Temple's site had been bought, and blessed by Abdu'l-Bahá himself. Cried he: "Now praise be to God that Chicago and its environs, from the beginning...
Despite his age, Tycoon Hearst has not shriveled. Grey, jowled like a coon dog, no longer nimble, he still stands impressively erect to his full 6 ft. 2, is remarkably healthy. He still bubbles with new ideas for his publications, over which he maintains the vigilance of a whimsical despot. His newspapers are still wild-eyed, red-inked, impulsive, dogmatic, often inaccurate, and littered with grade-A, boob-catching circulation features. Currently Hearstpapers are making lurid attacks against "Stalin's Monstrous Double-Dealing," and are promoting "Total Warfare Against Japan . . . NOW." But Hearst personally has mellowed in his declining...
...sculpture as in life, the figure of Thomas Jefferson contains no repose. He was a tall and restless man, redheaded, lean, gangling, with a frontiersman's hard body and a philosopher's brooding brow. The statue by Sculptor Rudulph Evans has caught that quality: Jefferson stands erect, rebellious, staring toward the White House with strained and unyielding eyes. Around the walls above his head, his carved words stand out like a shout in the Memorial's massive silence: I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind...
Panama wanted to know what had happened to 10,000 undelivered machetes ordered from the U.S. (the machetes had been sent to the Solomon Islands). Panamanians also wanted machinery to manufacture cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...