Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Relations. In Mount Clemens, Mich., charged with running through a traffic light. Robert Eastman interrupted the court hearing to announce that he would be a candidate for Congress in the 1956 Democratic Party primary...
...thousand officials from outside went in to mount watch at polling places. Red-and-white border barricades dropped down to keep out everybody else. Then some 650,000 citizens of the industrial Saar basin freely cast their votes. The question: Would they accept the "Europeanizing" of their territory, and thereby advance the cause of European unity and Franco-German amity...
...Reckless is by no means the first horse to be honored for wartime services. Alexander the Great named a city after Bucephalus, his favorite mount. The Roman Emperor Caligula caused Incitatus, his stallion, to be elected a priest and a consul. The skeleton of Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveler, still stands near Lee's tomb at Lexington...
Though the new Continental has been redesigned from rubber to roof, it is deliberately reminiscent of its famed predecessor. The body is long (18 ft. 2 in.) and low (56 in.). The spare-tire mount, a hallmark of the old Continental, is now molded into the trunk lid. Under its 6-ft. hood is a souped-up Lincoln engine with an estimated 300 h.p. (because Ford wants to avoid a horsepower contest with other big cars, the exact figures are secret). Automatic transmission, power steering, power brakes and power windows are standard equipment; the sole optional feature is air conditioning...
Even closer to the midstream of popular U.S. taste was Long Islander William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), who once noted in hsi diary: "I must paint such pictures as speak at once to the spectator . . . that will be understood in an instant." In paintings such as Banjo Player (opposite), Mount proved he knew his audience. Infused today with the nostalgic glow of yesteryear, they are kept just this side of sentimentalism by Mount's careful craftsmanship and observant eye. In their quiet way, they look good for many years to come...