Word: patios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the B.s shyly inquired about costs, Neutra made a rough guess that their house would come to $16,000 (it grew to $19,500, not including patio, garden and subsequent extras, but Neutra based his 10% fee on the lower figure...
...served as the entrance porch. The living room was an 18 by 32 ft. rectangle staggered irregularly by a guest closet, bookcases, birch-trimmed dining alcove and flagstone hearth. Along one wall were 27 ft. of plate glass windows, with sliding draperies. The opposite wall, facing out into a patio and three-tiered garden, was 32 ft. of almost solid glass...
...house were more than doubled by the accessible decks, patio and garden. The B.s agreed that it cut down on housework and let a lot more sun, space and air into their lives. It would not date-at least not for a long time-it fitted all their special needs, and it was handsome in a boldly simple way. When they had sold their antiques and moved in, Mrs. B. could think of only one word to describe the way she felt about it: "Liberation...
...Gathered together beneath a banner bearing the silver-spangled motto, YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE,* 5,000-odd Northern Baptists wandered in the corridors outside the hall among a variety of exhibits (on everything from the merits of missions to the evils of alcohol), chatted warmly in the wicker-furnished "Friendship Patio," looked in on the nursery where convening parents parked their offspring...
...Lenten calm settled over Central America. At Costa Rican Junta President José Figueres' finca, which had recently rung with the none-too-rhythmic clump of marching Caribbean Legionnaires, silent peons spread coffee beans on the patio to dry in the warm tropical sun. The Legion was dead. It had been done in by the guile of its old enemy, Nicaragua's "Tacho" Somoza-and by the no-nonsense order of the Organization of American States (TIME, Jan. 3). The end had come before the Legion could fire a shot at Tacho or its other prime target, Dominican...