Word: grid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grid Designs...
...Politicians and many planners have never really understood what planning really is," he said. Blake emphasized that in the future all rational urban design must utilize so-called "grid designs" which would bring private city services, office buildings, pedestrian plazas, and even highways together in multi-level structures...
...prepared news program, explained: "The presidential campaign is not yet open." The episodes underscored an issue that is producing a crescendo of static in non-Gaullist ranks, and even among some conscience-stricken Gaullists them selves-De Gaulle's blithe appropriation of France's radio and TV grid for his own political uses. When De Gaulle speaks, his words are broadcast repeatedly; but Defferre, since announcing his candidacy in December, has become the Invisible Man on the French TV screen...
Sports writers are quick to point out that in "this great, Ivy-draped grid rivalry" it is possible, and, in fact, advisable to "throw out the recordbook." Unfortunately, this advice is rarely heeded; the book is dragged out almost as frequently as in the World Series...
...never put much folding green on a college grid fray," said one Harvard student who preferred to remain unidentified, "but at these odds, I'm tempted to venture at least $20 on a Crimson triumph...