Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, as they had been accustomed to doing after Allied bombings, they went down into the streets and swept the broken glass and fallen tiles into the gutter. Not more than a few dozen of the 108,000 residents of Ludwigshafen bothered to go down to the factory-they had long since ceased to be curious about scenes of destruction. Most of those who did go were mothers or wives of workers who had not called or come right home. These women waited patiently across the street from the plant, every now & then crossing over to see whether...
...death, white for purity and blue for triumph. An eagle and a snake, which also appear in Mexico's flag, dimly inhabited the bright chaos. Struggling up past them into the blue was a pair of lonely human legs. To reflect the sunlight, Orozco had embedded bits of glass into the concrete wall, and added strips of bronze and stainless steel to accent his lines...
...shih is not the name he started with, either. Many years ago, he was plain Ch'ih Huang, a carpenter's apprentice from Hunan. After work one day he collected some shrimps, crabs, crickets, and tiny bugs, and put them all into a glass box. "I observed these creatures with my eye," says he, "and put them into my heart." One by one, he painted their "portraits"; and one by one, to his great surprise, he sold what he had painted...
...time the confusion over basing points is cleared up*-and the new raises added-some steel users expect to be paying as much as $80 a ton for finished steel, up to 30% more than last month. A sprinkling of new wage increases also sent up the prices of glass, copper wire and cable (5% to 13%) and dozens of other items. (United Air Lines, Inc. applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 10% rise in passenger rates...
...unexcitable. City-room staffers clock him in every day: hanging up his hat & coat at 5:20 p.m., putting them on again at exactly 12:05 a.m. Some times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room waiters and orders a sandwich and glass of milk from the cafeteria. Reporters like the way Garst seeks their judgment on a story's value (Garst: "How much space do you want to give it?"), respect the quick but never superficial reading he gives their copy, admire his calm in a news crisis. Said Star Reporter Meyer Berger...