Word: glassing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been unseasonably moist and June unreasonably cool, but this week New York City's 7,795,471 residents finally read unmistakable signposts of an impending weather change - and with it a threat of sociological change. Shortened were Manhattan's winter skyscraper shadows; the tall towers of stone, glass and burnished metal reached upward nearly shadowless under the hazy midday...
...Adams House Harold has mounted a picture of Dover Beach--clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasonally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the universal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often, he stands before the plate-glass display of Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
...collection of U.S. memorabilia intended to tell a social history of the U.S., ranging from a cigar-store wooden Indian to an early-model Ford, a chipped plaster statue of Washington and a glass showcase of latter-day examples of Western tumbleweeds. Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...
...Began. In San Jose, Calif., after International Business Machines Corp. installed a large electronic computer in a new plant, Mathematician William Mitchell equipped it with a glass-enclosed Chinese abacus and a sign reading: "In case of emergency, break glass...
...mainland-owned companies, formed collective-like "proportional profit" cane plantations. A TVA-style Water Resources Authority took over power production from several private power companies, and began wide-scale irrigation as well. Using $10.7 million in treasury funds, Fomento built or took over factories to make cement, glass and cardboard (for rum bottles and cases), shoes, tile...