Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that they hadn't-not that they were all upstanding citizens or that they were all devoted to work and family. But last week, as the headlines crackled with more sensational affairs, they were free to keep the country going-to iron its shirts, milk its cows, erect its steel and keep it generally on course...
...chimney that formed one wall; it was covered with a clean white cloth. The windowless room had electric lights, three radios, no chair. At about three feet below the ceiling a shelf cut down the head room so that Makushak, who is 6 ft. 1 in., could barely stand erect. The floor was cluttered with odds & ends of junk, cans of food, bottles of soda water, newspapers and books-Alexis Carrel's Man the Unknown, a Bible, dictionaries, a French grammar, textbooks on shorthand, mechanics and mathematics. Scraps of paper bore such scribbled mottoes as: "It is better...
...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...erect, well-knit six-footer, Trippe, at 49, still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring...
Point of Departure. Last week the Dilowa Hutukhtu, urbane, erect and 66, was a Lattimore house guest in Baltimore's Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...