Word: fa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Façade. In Houston, the city council voted to accept a new $2,700,000 police headquarters and jail, but withheld $25,000 from Architect Kenneth Frankheim's fee because he had his name engraved in marble on the front of the building, put the names of councilmen on a bronze plaque inside...
...depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping coal in short supply. "They don't want coal," said a bitter Italian. "For them, la mancanza fa la forza-power through shortage...
Their deceptively innocent emblem was the Renaissance façade of the Campidoglio, Rome's city hall, designed by Michelangelo and beloved by all Romans. They called their candidates' roster the Lista Cittadina-the citizens' list...
...woman [is] a schoolteacher." Party Lines. Male or female, the Old Grad is something of a rebuke to those who think that a campus is a breeder of radi cals. Republicans outnumber Democrats three to two, and more than half of the graduates admit that they vote as their fa thers did. Apparently, the chances are less than one to ten that Republican children will switch parties; among Democrats, the chances are twice as great. Thus, says the survey, "whatever effect college has is to the benefit of the Republican Party." Independents account for about 35% but whatever their political...
...come about that he was so much misunderstood?") and also with his coalminer's pickax: "His ego now fills the whole cosmos." Violently he played the Bevanite line that Britain's rearmament and her U.S. alliance carry her toward war. ". . . Behind the guise and façade of the United Nations, the Americans are waging an ideological war with weapons against the Soviet Union...