Word: overlaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taxes. In 1900 a British engineer assayed a Nauru rock being used as a doorstop in his Sydney office, discovered that the island was richly overlaid with phosphate. With Britain, Australia and New Zealand extracting the deposits, royalties have showered down on the Nauruans to the tune of half a million dollars a year. Today the dark-skinned natives pay no taxes but enjoy schools, hospitals, running water, electric lights and movies...
...resultant sound has pleased critics from Novosibirsk to Ann Arbor, where the group opened the Middle Western segment of its two-month U.S. tour last week. The New York Times found Barshai's strings "a core of cast iron overlaid with silver." Later, a three-night stand at Carnegie Hall was sold out-largely because Russia's great father and son violinists, David and Igor Oistrakh, appeared on the program. But Barshai's group did not suffer in comparison...
...example," he writes, "mid-18th century interiors, and some exteriors, showed a tendency to conceal structure with overlaid flowing ornament which deceived the eye in quite the same way that an overornamented, spuriously structured dress of that period also did. Much building in the 19th century suffered from a kind of romantic eclecticism that brought on a gush of half-baked period revivals, and the history of 19th century costume shows quite the same dependence on the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the rococo period, Catherine de Medici and James II. In the architecture of our own time, the compulsion...
...movie projector with films of Selassie's red-carpet arrival at Washington's Union Station and an autographed photograph of himself in a silver frame. The Emperor presented the President with an Ethiopian Bible copied by hand on parchment bound in silver and overlaid with a gold crucifix, a 200-year-old Coptic church book, a silver fruit bowl inlaid with gold, a silver miniature of the Lion of Judah statue in Addis Ababa, and an autographed photo of himself in a silver frame...
...spitting filthy insults at him-to point up the fact that he was not yet divine. At last, on a sacred mountain 150 miles from Musongo, the Mwata Yambo was installed. From the gnarled hands of the Ruwej he accepted his symbol: a sacred bracelet of copper and iron, overlaid with sinews from the penis of a freshly slaughtered goat...