Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wings of Air Force One, glistening in their new coat of Glass Wax, have swooped through the skies of Eastern Europe and ancient Persia. Jimmy Carter's Georgia gang have dined aloft on steak and eggs, chewed Doublemint, and sent home their first dispatches from their airborne odyssey...
After everyone was seated in the conference room, Sadat suddenly clapped his hands twice and shouted: "Ahwa, shay"-coffee, tea. A pair of waiters carrying trays of tea and Turkish coffee came hurriedly into the room and served the delegates. Reaching for a glass of green shay, Sadat recalled: "I drank very good tea in Jerusalem." The Israelis never ceased being startled throughout the conference by the Egyptian President's hand clapping...
With ahwa and shay served, Sadat raised his glass and declared: "This is a happy day in my life, to have you seated here, facing us in Ismailia and discussing substance and not procedure." When he expressed his pleasure at having the conference "close to the place where Moses crossed the sea," Begin quipped: "It took Moses 40 years to cross the desert on his way to the Promised Land, while it took us only 40 minutes to cross...
...Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
...retail stores that will move into the new building will face Brattle Street and will feature a below ground level entrance and glass canopy overhanging the sidewalk, said James B. Herals, project manager for Sert, Jackson & Associates, the architectural firm that designed the complex...