Word: fines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy put on a show of bombing and strafing tactics next day for the benefit of the press party that was billeted aboard the accompanying aircraft carrier Essex, and Ike watched that for a short time. All hands got a glimpse of fine old Navy tradition when Des Moines steamed past Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, the flagship of NATO Mediterranean Commander Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley. Tiger boomed a 21-gun salute, her band blared out The Star-Spangled Banner, Des Moines's band blasted back God Save the Queen, and Essex's band tootled out with...
Chou's answer amounts to a total rejection of all of Nehru's proposals, except the one about not sending out border patrols. Though headlines played up Chou's willingness to negotiate, the fine print showed that he was in no real bargaining mood...
Susse's reputation for fine sculpture casting runs back 200 years. André Susse, 49, the seventh in the Susse line of foun-drymen, is a meticulous craftsman and connoisseur. Over the years, Susse Brothers has played host and helper to such far-flung makers of sculpture history as Constantin Brancusi, Jean Arp, Henry Moore, Germaine Richier, and the painter-sculptors Picasso, Giacometti, Braque, Dali and Chagall...
Site and architect came together by sheer chance. Seven years ago, rotund, ebullient Nat Owings, 56, a senior partner of the huge architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, was visiting San, Francisco for the express purpose of courting a handsome divorcee, Margaret Wentworth. One fine fall day they set out on a picnic in the precipitous Big Sur country south of Carmel. Scrambling along the cliffs, they came upon a finger of land that thrust out into the Pacific in lonely grandeur. To the south, they could see a 40-mile sweep of coastline. Six hundred feet below, sea lions...
...TRIAL OF DOCTOR ADAMS, by Sybilla Bedford. A retelling of the headline-famed case of England's Dr. John Bodkin Adams, acquitted of committing murder by drugs, this book shows what a fine novelist (The Legacy) can take back from a courtroom. Author Bedford raises the sensational to the dramatic. Her greatest triumph: sustaining suspense when all the time the reader knows the outcome...