Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Architecturally, Adams includes two fragments of that vanished land, the Gold Coast, where the walls are dark with oak paneling, the windows small and leaded, the bathtubs crouch on scaley clawed feet, and the square swimming pool steams with the mosiac erudition of Xanadu...
Sweat at the Oak Bole. In Treece's version, King Arthur becomes Artos the Bear, a barrel-chested brute with blue dye on his cheekbones.* He is plowing his father's fields with a brace of bulls when blind old Ambrosius, one of the last of the Roman legionaries, by title the Count of Britain, stumbles upon him. By the old man's side walks Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword...
ATOMIC TOWNS built by the U.S. Government will be opened to private ownership. The AEC has decided to sell 10,000 houses, hundreds of commercial buildings and vacant lots in Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash., will give present residents priority, but will also sell to other homeowners and business interests. Assessed value: $89.5 million...
...King George III (of Revolutionary War fame) was already showing such symptoms of future dottiness as screaming, "View Halloo!" at morning prayers and greeting oak trees as old friends in Windsor Park. Queen Charlotte and her eldest son were already jockeying for power as Regent. Prinney threaded a delicate path between the beckonings of his secret wife and his demanding and increasingly shrewish mistress. Caroline publicly boasted of her taste in "bedfellows," and soon turned up with an "adopted" son called "Willikins" who was widely said to be her own. "Prove it and he shall be your King!" she would...
...ceiling-in an earlier building the children tore ordinary radiators apart. Walls are lined with rugged tile up to a height of seven feet. Thermostats are covered by grills. Door hinges are made so that they cannot be dismantled. Beds, like other furniture, are of rugged, 1¼-in. oak. "We tried steel beds before," says Dr. Waggoner, "and they only lasted a few months...