Word: firs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide open spaces of the train shed were deemed essential. Out there, things do get interesting. The vast, gently arched roof is a 110-ft.-high web of steel trusses fitted with alternating wall-to-wall strips of clear glass and unpainted wood planks. The glass and fir are all new, but almost every bit of steel, 2,700 tons, is original. The space is gloriously scaled, and the strips of roof make for neat plays of sun and shadow on the eleven acres beneath. One simultaneously feels inside and outdoors, comforted and invigorated; the ambiguity, akin to that...
...Jeane J. Kirk-Patrick became famous for criticizing in the Carter Administration. I would venture to guess that the same people who denounce "constructive engagement" in South Africa supporting reestablishing detente with the Soviet Union to communicate with the regime perhaps encourage its reform. The dissenters claim that "American fir: is supply computers that monitor the movement of Blacks" and the technology "that the military and police force use to suppress the majority," Well, the high tech items we trade to the Soviet Union are used to stifle opposition and indeed to build the guidance systems designed to target missiles...
...ship is about 65 ft. long, rigged for a single square sail. Thus far only some of the hull's planking and part of the vessel's keel, made of fir, have been unearthed from the sediment. Apparently, the ship foundered on the coast's treacherous rocks and went straight down, without splintering, thus retaining much of its cargo. Bass and his fellow archaeologists were able to date the ship from at least two clues: a delicate double-handled Greek cup, similar to those made between 1400 and 1350 B.C., and the copper ingots, with their characteristic...
...Nine fir-lined peaks ring the town...
...have a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all plays that the unbeaten Crusaders may fall dead, and that the Gil Fenerty may be discharged of yards as violently as hasty passes fir'd doth hurry from Peter Muldoon's fatal cannon...