Word: fixedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The restaurants, casinos and nightclubs are empty, except for pistol-packing bigwigs, and only a few of them. The Hotel Jaragua is almost deserted, and the 310-room Embajador, which cost $6,000,000 or so, had about 20 guests. I'm convinced that the slot machines and games...
Also constantly tested Army-wide, often at 3 or 4 a.m.: how fast each unit can be combat loaded and on the road toward prepared battle positions. Minimum requirements for each unit's mobilization of manpower: 50% strength in 30 minutes, 35% more in two hours, no more than...
Johns paints the American flag in various colors, including the conventional ones. Or he paints targets, or numbers arranged in little squares. Or, tiring of that, he will put a frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the...
"When disunion has become a fixed and certain fact," wrote New York City's Democratic Mayor Fernando Wood to the city common council 18 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, "why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal...
To many a mainland citizen, the new proposals will seem a grab for the best of both worlds, stirring grumbling that Puerto Rico should be all the way in the U.S. or all the way out. Muñoz argues that the relationship is not fixed, but is intended to...