Word: erects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...imprint on the features and the temperament of the President. The crevices in cheeks and brow are more deeply graven; his hair is markedly greyer. Johnson's demeanor-in public, at least-has become noticeably more restrained, more responsive to the image of his office. Yet, an erect 6 ft. 3 in., he still exudes irrepressibly the hill-countryman's crackling vitality; his pace is still hell-for-leather, his self-confidence as massive as ever. When asked by an aide how he felt about the job last week, Lyndon replied buoyantly: "I have no regrets...
Battalions of workers struggled to plant trees, lay pavement, erect lamp posts. Air-conditioning and simultaneous-translation equipment was installed but not hooked up. Toilets refused to flush. Generators stood uncrated in the sand. At least ten of 65 new villas for visiting chiefs of state had no walls. To add to the confusion at "Shambles-onSea," as newsmen dubbed Des Pins, the multimillion-dollar conference hall at week's end was ripped by a violent explosion-presumably the work of anti-government terrorists...
...however, McNamara is having his troubles with Congress-mostly in the person of L. (for Lucius) Mendel Rivers, 59, new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a tall, militarily erect (although he has no service record) lawyer from Gumville, S.C., who now lives in Charleston. Rivers admires McNamara's ability, but he has long been irritated at the way the Secretary favored Vinson with inside information, often leaving the other 37 committee members in the dark. The new chairman's view came through clearly at a recent McNamara briefing. Riled by McNamara's patronizing attitude, he said...
Stopping the Funds. As late as 1954, the government was still reimbursing Sicilians for damage done to their ancestors' property during Garibaldi's historic 1860 campaign to unify Italy. Even Garibaldi has been kept waiting. Italy's Parliament in 1910 passed a law to erect his statue in Marsala, Sicily, but the technicalities took so long that inflation has made the original appropriation wildly inadequate. Having missed the 50th anniversary, Parliament decided in 1960 to try for the 100th. It passed a new law appropriating 90 million lire, but the design chosen required 200 million lire...
...Owens, erect and brisk at 64, readily concedes that his Selma University is wildly misnamed. It is not a full college, much less a university, since only its three theology students study for four years. It cannot get accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools even as a junior college, because it has no science building, pays its faculty $1,000 less than the required minimum of $4,500, and has no teachers with master's degrees in science, mathematics, English, business or social science. Owens' problem is money. In fund raising, he says, "you always...