Word: frame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure, install it and repair the shaft, he did not know the condition of the column. His new, 13-ft. granite statue, he says, will "last for 10,000 years," and he objects to putting it on a base "that has not lasted the life time of a frame bungalow." The Park Service replied that Government engineers have inspected the shaft, and with a little fixing, it will be perfectly safe. Besides, Congress only appropriated $59,000 for the whole job: a new shaft alone would cost...
...Neat Package. A year after it was founded in 1697, under a grant of England's William III, Trinity Church was a little, unsteepled frame building outside the city limits, at the head of a country road named Wall Street and on a lane called the Broad Way. Thus, like many another early New Yorker, Trinity got rich simply by sitting still on a piece of real estate. Trinity's balance sheets would be enough to give the average budget-bullied minister spots before the eyes. Though by 1825 the parish had given away two-thirds...
...Moss and mildew flourished on the paneled walls. Water seeping from a blocked gutter had rotted the floors. Fungus grew on ancient banisters. Ivy, snaking through broken windowpanes, writhed in green profusion. Thousands of dead bees littered every corner. Lady Dunbar, erstwhile tidy Maryland housewife, held up a picture frame from which the canvas had long since rotted. "A portrait," she remarked wryly, peering through it, "of the wife of the present baronet...
...rarest coincidence, he saw a grey-haired, bespectacled man with an oddly shaped left ear step off a bus in Orange (pop. 21,174), Texas. Seigenthaler was instantly discouraged: the man limped badly. But the reporter followed his quarry through a quiet neighborhood to a white, comfortably unkempt frame house. The thin, limping man was Thomas D. Palmer, a television salesman. His wife, a motherly looking woman, worked as a court reporter and often toiled at home after hours, typing legal documents. They had six children-two married daughters, a son in the Marine Corps, a crippled 14-year...
...wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked in a whisper. He was in and out of hospitals. The few people who met him called him gentle and immensely patient. When he died last week at 65, he left at least three plays in manuscript, including...