Word: feets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since even big Hovercraft will rise only a few feet above the water, they are bound to have trouble with waves. But the designers are not much worried. Most steep waves are low enough, they say, to be passed over easily. High waves are usually long and gradual; they can be surmounted like a series of hills. Hovercraft can be designed with a seaworthy hull. In the worst storms they could drop down into the water and ride out the storm like any other vessel...
Wisely spent, the $2 billion pumped into Spain during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree, some of whose principal results are a steel mill whose products cost half again as much as German imports, an auto plant in Barcelona that builds ersatz Fiats for more than twice the cost of the real thing, thousands of luxury apartments still unrented, a $300 million annual trade deficit, an inflation that nearly doubled the amount of currency in circulation in five years (from 37 billion...
...when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize...
...with buildings; and most important, a large and vocal group, while in favor of a war memorial, stood strongly opposed to making it a chapel, especially a chapel confined to one religious tradition. Protests aside, however, Appleton came down and Memorial Church went up, its slender steeple rising 200 feet...
Gagaku's dances unfold stories of childlike simplicity in a context of barbaric splendor: a Mongol wanders the forest seeking a golden snake, finds it coiled at his feet, crouches in his stiffly encrusted robes to eat it, performs an angular dance of joy; four dancers in court dress, with cherry blossoms in their headgear, unfold with caressing steps from a circle, suggesting the blossoms in the imperial garden opening under the May sun. Even without masks, the dancers' faces are as unwaveringly expressionless as carvings in jade. The body movements are slow, solemn, almost architectural, with...