Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mustachioed Texan who ambled around Hollywood wearing a pirate-style gold earring, was most often cast as the oil-slick villain of Hollywood cliffhangers (Ruthless, Whiplash), but proved equally proficient in the demanding Broadway role of the relentless defense attorney in Faulkner's 1959 Requiem for a Nun; of cancer; in Austin, Texas...
Best of all are the palindromic sentences (Dennis and Edna sinned; Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus; Ma is a nun...
...short he feels doomed, and no one disputes his judgment. Not his solicitor father, an Eire-iiber-alles bigot who delights in Hitler's early military victories. Not his complacent mother, not his studious brother, not his pretty sister nor even his student-nurse girl friend Sally-"a nun in mufti." In fact, about the only thing that gives him any comfort is something not even the angels could understand: modern poetry, and especially Wallace Stevens' lines...
...many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building is at Harvard, a Visual Arts Center perched on pilotis, with a wing shaped like the body of a guitar. His last project was a design for an $11 million hospital that would...
...well. The rebel commander ordered his Simbas not to molest them, and many of the Europeans still lived in their own houses. Some, after giving their word of honor that they would return to Buta, were permitted brief visits to government-held towns. The commander even allowed one Belgian nun to go on home leave-on condition that she bring him back a new uniform from Brussels...