Word: ground-floor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan would have a row of office buildings along Eliot Street, with ground-floor shops opening both onto the Brattle Square area and the library complex. Such buildings might include outdoor cafes, artists' supply shops, bookstores, or large restaurants...
Bronze Nude & Car Bumpers. The house, of course, was the White House, and the occasion was that extraordinary Festival of the Arts. Hung on the walls of a ground-floor White House corridor was Peter Kurd's carefully representational Nito Herrera in Springtime, and right next to that was Avant-Garde Artist Jasper Johns's Target with Four Faces, an eerie encaustic on newspaper fixed onto canvas. Down the corridor, in the space traditionally occupied by a life-size portrait of President Millard Fillmore, was Mark Rothko's shimmering abstract Ochre...
...McGill University in Montreal, Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University, the top-rank University of Toronto, and four big western provincial universities -are pouring out more graduates than ever. But the typical Canadian student nowadays is just as likely to be found at an "instant university," sitting in a ground-floor classroom while builders finish the upper stories. For the country has a clear goal: it wants to move from higher-educating a relatively elite 15% of its college-age population to a 1975 level of 271% (currently the U.S. proportion...
President Johnson was also besieged by calls, telegrams, visiting delegations -and, at one point, by a group of twelve civil rights protesters, who started on a regular White House tour, then plopped down in a ground-floor corridor and refused to budge. At the time, Johnson was playing host to a delegation of Negro newspaper editors. He was, said one editor later, "concerned, perturbed, and frustrated...
...barrage of rocks and bricks, the rioters broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. embassy. They overturned and burned cars, tore down the U.S. flag, replaced it with the Cambodian emblem. As embassy personnel huddled behind tear-gas-armed Marine guards on the third floor, the demonstrators ransacked ground-floor offices, destroying papers and smashing equipment. At the British embassy, the whole process was repeated, even to painting "Down with the Americans" on the walls. Said one Brit on: "That was the final indignity...