Word: mushrooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wright's plan calls for four mushroom-shaped chapels, to be named the White, Blue, Rose and Yellow Chapels respectively, each with a "Slumber Room" for bodies lying in state. Also planned: a pyramidal structure lopped off at the top to provide a landing field for helicopters, a tall-spired kiosk to serve as a flower booth, and a two-story office building where the bereaved will be consulted, tombstones sold, and living space provided for a four-man night shift...
Last week, in an office in the gloomy Chamber of Deputies, aged (74), ailing Premier Leon Blum ruminated wearily over a light dinner of mushroom omelet, plain lettuce salad and toast, then confided in a tired whisper: "An omelet is easier to make than a Cabinet . . . things are more complicated than I thought...
...lidless, almost completely enclosed hot-water kettle which looks like an inverted mushroom...
...State Department." When the U.S. wanted to make a show of force in the Mediterranean, it used the Navy (TIME, Sept. 30). The volatile, high-octane boys in the Air Forces were sure that a single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
...silence, peace's little men watched the instantaneous, incredible mushroom, the dark spurts of universal power, the shimmering bright column of the stem, the wall of ship-engulfing water. In silence, they left the theater...