Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summit will take place in quarters fit for kings. Prime Minister James Callaghan refurbished the second-floor dining room at 10 Downing Street at a cost of $73,000. Air conditioning was installed and six temporary translation booths set up. The men will negotiate in a realm of gold-gold carpet, gold brocade draperies, gold-framed portraits of Lord Nelson and William Pitt gazing imperiously down on more circumscribed statesmen...
...Drafters are still grappling too with the question of a head of family who will not work. The program will probably eliminate cash assistance for the laggard, but not for the spouse or children. States and localities would be free to adjust to the federal program as they saw fit, either maintaining or reducing their own plans...
...They were slickin' up for their pictures like country boys going to the city." But when she tried to get the President's men to pose in white ties, top hats and tails, they balked. The down-home Carter hands harrumphed that such a picture would not fit their image...
...arranged. The instinctive reaction to the masterly arrangement of the exhibit grows as one walks through these rooms. For this "family" celebration, the Fogg's guest list of paintings that should be included must have been awfully long, but the hosts of this art get-together have managed to fit in as many as possible, and indeed have turned the potential problem of overcrowding to advantage. The paintings are displayed so that they inform each other; like well-placed guests around a dinner table, they engage naturally in conversation. The juxtaposition of the 1783 Portrait of Benjamin Thompson, by Gainsborough...
Continuing in the pattern of the past that prevented her from seeing the growing radicalization and discontent of her daughter, Charlotte remains unconscious to the realities around her in Boca Grande. She is so concerned with revising the past to fit the dream of a happy American life that she lives oblivious to the dangerous political machinations and rivalries that eventually crush...