Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...
...only two tons of the vital water had been produced. Air raids slowed Germany's industry, disrupted her communications. The pile-builders never got all the uranium they needed. They were forced to work in cellars and air-raid shelters. In 1945, they took refuge in a dugout hewn in the rock near the village of Haigerloch, about 32 miles from Stuttgart...
...some dinner and dancin'." Was it serious between him and Virginia? "That's a 'no comment' question, honey," said he. But he was shortly moved to an extension of remarks. "Takin' a girl out is all part of nature," mused the rough-hewn Governor. ". . . And I'm a man who likes to get close to nature...
Because the bones in Dr. Colbert's quarry are softer than the Chinle (sandy clay) formation that surrounds them, they must be taken up with great care. No attempt is being made to recover individual bones at Ghost Ranch: the entire bonanza is being hewn out in big blocks of rock (one to eight tons each), and shipped to Manhattan. There, in the next few months, experts will remove the matrix of rock around the fossils, and carefully polish and reassemble the skeletons...
...Angelica. Pamela Brown plays the latter with the necessary restraint to make the character credible beneath the neat stylization. Her quiet, satirical mugging helps give the standard part another dimension. Expertly entangled among the various intrigues of plot are Robert Flemyng and Jessie Evans, as two rather rough-hewn characters, and John Kidd as an old many-times-cuckolded astronomer...