Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With none of the usual gaseous explosions, gothic orations or protracted strikes, the soft-coal operators and John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers last week signed a new 14-month contract. The miners got a 20?-an-hour pay boost, and the operators got ready to raise coal prices as much as 25? a ton at the pits...
...Bridge has other connections with Harvard besides the name. Its brick facing resembles that used in the Houses and its piers will bear gothic E's for Eliot. The middle arch will be 100 feet wide--largest on the Crimson--to give the crews space on the upper river...
...largest in all Viet Nam, a small boy ran ahead of Les américains waving a big new Stars & Stripes made for the occasion in the hardworking local flag factory. A six-piece brass band was on hand and a demonstrative crowd stood by, cheering wildly. In the gothic-style church, a choir of little girls dressed in white chanted, "Our Lady, pity Viet Nam and bring peace." Then the straggly-bearded parish priest. Pere Luc, presented an embroidered silk panel to his visitors and in the same breath asked for his dearest wish: 20 to 30 Sten guns...
...Gothic craftsman's fingers...
England's grey stone, gothic cathedrals and trim, bottle-green countryside, and the fleshless abstractions of modern European art, only roused Williams' nostalgia for Guiana. "I'd been too busy trying to understand European art and I'd overlooked the material at my own back door." Last year he went home to Guiana to take another look...