Word: hewn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, while Lila reads, Wallace walks up a winding staircase to his medieval-tower workroom. Beneath its hewn beams, soothed by soft music piped in from a control-panel below, he works, usually till midnight, at the sprawling mountain of manuscripts piled on his desk. Memos have been known to molder in the pile for years, before Wallace got around to scrawling in the margin: "Sure. Go ahead. Wally." But the stuff he regards as important does not linger there long. Next morning, Wallace loads his completed work into his briefcase and careens off to the office in his battered...
...overwhelmed by so much kindness on every side" during this his fifth visit to America. He said he hoped that his visit would fulfill Choate's hope which he expressed in 1907: "We reiterate the hope that all Harvard men will come to the rock from which they were hewn ... where the founder of this great university spent so much of his youth, and so add more links which bind the old country with...
Since MacArthur was awarded the honorary degree in 1946, each year the carpenters have hoped that he would get back to the States in time to trod the boards they had hewn and laid, but they still may have to wait another year...
...from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice for the entire civilized world...
Born in Italy, Lucioni came to Manhattan at ten, discovered Vermont eight years later. He worked his way through art schools, made a business success of painting while still in his 20s. A rough-hewn bachelor with pink cheeks and thick grey hair, he winters in Greenwich Village, plays and sings snatches from operas for relaxation. In Vermont he lives with two sisters, raises all his own vegetables...