Word: glossier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days before Ike's arrival, as Cabinet members and top military brass of 15 nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first...
...million for the lot), and the first test will probably be made from a Pacific island next September. From the gawky Far Side, the Air Force hopes to get information on cosmic rays, the earth's magnetic field and space temperature that will be sorely needed when the glossier and more expensive military rockets begin to navigate space...
...awed by the brighter lights, wider streets or glossier marble of the national capital. "You know," he said recently, "the whole U.S. is just an extension of Toledo. I go to a Senate committee hearing and I can always pick out a fellow who reminds me of a councilman back in Toledo. So I talk to him. They're just people, you know...