Word: monolithism
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...happy Fitzgerald days he showed Rhoda a world she could not even imagine. But no matter how much Tom earned, Rhoda could not get over the fear that the theater was a precarious life. Her fetish was security, and when she met Presley Brake, founder of Monolith Security Mutual. Tom said: "I know Rhoda's going to love him." She did not, but while Tom was away in World War II, she married...
...make decisions respecting other free nations unilaterally or bilaterally with the Soviets. There has got to be an agreement in which the affected countries must be participants . . . We have established the NATO association realizing that the defense of the free world must work by cooperation when confronted by a monolith of force and power so great as the strength of the Communist area . . . We must not make a unilateral proposal that we go out, or that we demilitarize all Central Europe...
...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
...Monolith & Catalyst. In this bouncing scenery, the one unchanging force is the Los Angeles Times. Each morning it drops with a thick, self-assured plop on 462,257 doorsteps from Anaheim to Azusa,* like a faintly welcome striped-pants uncle (wealthy but voluble). Neither a great newspaper nor a poor one, the Times, from its downtown limestone monolith, serves as an unshakable herald, chronicling the region with loving detail, goading Angelenos toward the megalopolitan destiny ordained by Harrison Otis...
...most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs for a $15 million, 800-room, new Hilton Hotel. Said Hotelman Conrad Hilton: "We have heard about the renaissance of Pittsburgh. We like to go into a live city. Many communities just talk about urban redevelopment. Pittsburgh has accomplished...