Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What fascinates me," says Ruben Gibson, 32, a black from The Bronx, "is when we lay the stone for the cathedral the same way it comes from the ground, the grain horizontal. St. John the Divine is really a gray mountain." Gibson is foreman of the machine shop. He supervises the lifting of the big limestone slabs from the trucks. Then with chalk he diagrams each block with the outlines of the dozen or more stones that must be cut from it. "The great trick is not to waste any. They are very expensive and they cost as much...
There will doubtless be dramatic acts and gestures ahead, but the grand lines of his reign have been set. That is a pleasing prospect to a conservative like Lay Historian James Hitchcock of St. Louis University. "We may be emerging from the spiritual and intellectual crisis that has afflicted the Western world," he believes. "There is a yearning for spirituality, and the Pope with his strong personality will have a great impact. I expect him to be a great Pope. And I expect him to be Pope for a long time...
...this sentiment best, when he said before the subcommittee, "I do not trust white people in the South with my rights. I did not before the act. I do not 17 years later." A responsible government would take this opportunity to send a message of support to minorities and lay their worst fears to rest. If the white man ever has a burden, it is upon...
...turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge that swept away several bridges. The eruption killed 34 people, demolished 178 homes and devastated hundreds of thousands of acres, much of it rich timber land. By the time the dust cleared, 150 sq. mi. of once green countryside lay lifeless, under what looked like a heavy fall of gray snow...
Galbraith did not lay out his career in tedious rows. Teaching, Government service and writing follow a cyclical path. As a university instructor he feared "that my superiority would not be recognized." He found ample acceptance for his expertise in public service and journalism, first, in 1940, as a Keynesian economist for the American Farm Bureau Federation, during World War II in the Office of Price Administration, and then as an interrogator of Nazi war criminals and assessor of Allied bomb damage. Whenever Washington appeared to offer him an office but little to do, he returned to FORTUNE, where...