Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist was U.S. Negro Baritone William Warfield. The place was the rough-hewn farming community of Warwick (pop. 10,000) in the Australian bush...
...they brought with them packets of state papers, copies of constitutions and history books, set to work writing a provisional constitution. For 75 days, the Alaskans labored, phrasing, rephrasing, arguing. At length, on Feb. 5, 1956, emotionally spent, physically exhausted, brimming with pride, they voted to approve a finely hewn document. "These are good, tough men and women, and I wondered if we might not be getting carried away," recalls Alaska University President Ernest N. Patty, "so I looked for [Real Estate Man] Muktuk Marsdon-this big, tough man with a face like granite. And there he was, digging tears...
Three thousand miles away in San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Thomas Coakley looked thoughtfully at the ax-hewn pine timbers of the oldest courthouse in California, picked up a pencil and began to write: "In the days when this courthouse was built, the law was young and often painful on this frontier. We developed in 1854 what our pioneers recognized, as did their forebears in the East, that there must be a respect...
...hard to tell what Christopher Fry's The Firstborn is about. The overall impression is of far-of solid stone-hewn figures in a somehow intensely pregnant atmosphere, speaking heavily, as from a tomb...
...pioneer behind De Long is Colonel Leon B. ("Slim") De Long, 54. a rough-hewn Texan who ran away at 17 to join the Marines and learned his engineering the hard way as a private contractor and U.S. Army engineer. Retiring after World War II. in which he bossed 170.000 military and civilian construction people in Alaska, De Long got wind of a new kind of jack, more powerful than any before, snapped up the patent rights and brainstormed the idea of a mobile drilling platform for oilmen. Until then, the only offshore drilling was from permanent rigs that cost...