Word: fondest
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...Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore oyster houses, Chesapeake card games and political fisticuffs back home, and he returned occasionally to refresh his memory. In 1848, when the U.S. was at war with Mexico, he painted his War News from Mexico. From the shirt-sleeved fellow shouting out the story...
...fondest dreams of the urbanologists is a return to coherent neighborhoods. Doxiadis, who spends much of his time in America, preaches that "we must re-establish the human scale by making man feel part of his environment, not overpowered by it." His goal: communities of 30,000 to 50,000 people, measuring no more than...
...partially successful, since Washington was by no means reluctant; and he was instrumental in getting both countries to agree to elevate their legations to embassies. The State Department knew in January of Radványi's promotion from chargé d'affaires to ambassador, one of his fondest dreams; Washington had only to announce its own ambassadorial appointment to Budapest to make it official...
...head the Food and Drug Administration, Gardner named Dr. James L. Goddard, 43, the first physician to serve as commissioner in 45 years, and, if a good many shaken pharmaceutical executives have their fondest wish, perhaps the last. As Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs he named Philip Lee, who found a way to train 225,000 nurses a year instead of the previous 125,000 by pooling the resources of half a dozen separate agencies-without any extra cost...
Scientists were also astounded at the efficiency of Surveyor's solar panels, which seemed to be having no trouble keeping its batteries fully charged. "We never dreamed in our fondest dreams that we would have so much power," admitted Aerospace Engineer Leo Stoolman, a technical director at Hughes Aircraft, which built Surveyor. As a result, scientists who had at first speculated that Surveyor might operate for only 30 hours into the long lunar night began talking confidently about at least three times that much nighttime telemetry before batteries run down...