Word: erection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around the horseshoe table, behind their national name plates, sat the guardians of peace. Their assistants clustered about them, attentively bent forward, ready to leap into any possible breaches with a saving statistic. Under the bluish-white fluorescent glow, Andrei Gromyko sat erect, somberly garbed as any banker, reading in that flat, husky voice which has been described by several American women as replete with sex appeal...
...years at Princeton, thousands of students had come to know George McLean Harper-and hundreds never forgot him. They had listened to his dry, earnest voice over a classroom lectern, or heard him read aloud a favorite poet in his sun-patched garden. They knew him as an erect and kindly man who loved all that was good in men & books. Sometimes, over milk and cakes in his garden, he would begin a quiet discussion of Milton or Sainte-Beuve, and would soon become so excited by a point that his chair would scarcely hold him. But his natural dignity...
...Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Second Baron Lytton. The proclamation was read, the Royal Standard was hoisted, and artillery fired a grand salute of 101 salvos. Mixed bands played God Save the Queen, then trumpeted the blaring march from Tannhduser. Richly caparisoned elephants trumpeted too, and rushed wildly about with trunks erect when they heard the roll of musketry...
...Lutheran pastor, he left Zurich soon after his first sermon, on the text: "What will this babbler say?" The babbler had decided that there was a better future in painting. "I do not wish to build a cottage," he wrote in a friend's album, "but to erect a pyramid...
...short and stuffy life there had never been anything like the meetings of the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, gathered at Lake Success last week to erect an agenda for a full-dress conference next year. The ten men around the wide table made no set formalized speeches, pillowed no punches in diplomatic niceties. They flubbed parliamentary procedure and generally had a fine time talking frank talk. With one exception, they were men who had worked long at journalism. The exception was tweedy, dry-humored Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard professor...