Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic see, John Carmel Heenan had a right to expect a cardinalate; so did Archbishop William Conway of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland. It was also predictable that Paul would offer a sign of the church's esteem to Archbishop Enrico Dante, 80, the lean, gesticulating papal master of ceremonies, who has nudged and poked Bishops of Rome through the intricacies of pontifical rituals for 50 years...
...life of Air Force cadets, most of whom were academically tops in high school, is harder in other respects as well. Many carry 146 credit hours, compared with the 120 hours required by most state universities, are encouraged while undergraduates to take extra courses leading toward a master's degree...
Concrete Curtains. For medieval master builders, the most permanent material came from local quarries. Today the commonest material is steel-reinforced concrete, a fine example of which is the cathedral-sized church of Notre Dame in Royan. Pioneered in Europe by the late French architect Auguste Ferret, it makes possible spans and spires undreamed of by medieval minds. To fill in the voids, glass craftsmen have been called upon to hang handsome curtains that would have as tonished Gothic glassmakers. These new, iridescent walls of glass lend a ripple of color to otherwise oatmeal-grey concrete. The glassmakers must work...
Author Humphrey is a man of supple mind and ingenious fancy; he is also the unobtrusive master of a wide-eyed, self-deprecatory style that again and again sweet-talks the reader, step by reasonable step, right to the brink of the preposterous^and then tumbles him into laughter. He does it with a loving touch that leaves no bitter aftertaste: the Ordways come up smiling...
...Sundays. The new policy, approved this weekend by the university corporation and already in effect, allows females to visit student rooms seven days a week. All students, including freshmen, are permitted weekday parietals from noon to 7 p.m. provided the student tells his college master or dean...