Word: nave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sister organization, Radio Free Europe (TIME, July 17, 1950), R.F.A. was founded by a group of private U.S. citizens* who feel that the Voice of America, though effective in its way, is sometimes hampered because of "good & sufficient reasons of national policy." Explains Director John W. Elwood: "Because we nave no Government ties, we can say anything we damn please." For the present, R.F.A.'s transoceanic voice will be limited to 75 minutes of news and interpretation, six days a week...
Eventually Grand Coulee will have twelve pumps, housed in a long, tall room with the proportions of a cathedral nave. Two are already installed, driven by the most powerful (65,000 h.p.) motors in the world. Each can pump enough water (one billion gallons a day) to meet the needs of New York City. All twelve pumps together will lift 16,000 cubic feet per second-close to the average flow of the Colorado River...
...week of pre-invasion bombing of nearby Seine docks, bridges and warehouses by waves of Allied aircraft tore away rows of buttresses, flattened the whole southern side of the nave. Incendiaries set the tower afire and sent the bells crashing 253 feet to the floor. One huge stone column known as Pillar 58, which supports 2,000 tons of walls and roof, was blasted and bent. When the bombers were through with Rouen, the cathedral was a hollow, burnt-out shell in danger of collapsing completely...
...seem to keep from giving it." Witness Lewis complained that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after Brother Tom referred to her during a church service as "the meanest woman in Oakland...
...Rosie is hijacked by a gang of deserters. The second half of the book is spent largely in playing a rough game of ring-around-Rosie with the hijackers. In the end, Rosie is recovered, Snowy & Co. help bust the deserters' racket, and Snowy and the Italian princess nave made a night of it without class distinctions...