Word: erects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LUCK TO YOU." One rainy night last week, its intermittent flash disclosed an odd, yet strangely familiar spectacle. A dark-haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself Louis Turini had balanced on a narrow ledge of Boston's Touraine Hotel and threatened to jump one drizzly evening last June...
Purist. In Beaminster. England, Peter Tunstall was fined $5.60 for "malicious damage" after he uprooted a signpost that read "Drive Slow," wrote on it: "Disgusted at this display of bad English. Please rewrite and re-erect...
...execution time nears, the chaplain writes a letter to Liuba for the quivering Baranowski. He assures the deserter "that eternal love does not refuse him whom this world thrusts out," helps him stumble awkwardly through the Lord's Prayer, gives him the courage to stand erect until the firing squad cuts him down...
...proposed certain basic changes in educational curricula which would stress vocational training, in order to erect "a system based on the agrarian nature of the country and the needs of its people...
...white Ford bounced down steep canyon roads he kept bawling to the driver, "Take it easy!" Crossing Montana towards the end of the trip he saw "suddenly-the tops of the great train lined with clusters of hoboes-a hundred of them-some sprawled out, sitting, others erect, some stretched out on their backs lazily inviting the luminous American weather . . . and the 'bos roll past across America silently regarding us-the pity, terror, strangeness, and magnificence...