Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been, ever since...
...recovery are impossible, and even private rooms are drab, fitfully heated and ill-ventilated. There are some gleaming exceptions, among them the Clinical Center of the National Institute of Health at Bethesda, Md., the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles, the Jefferson Medical College Hospital's new pavilion in Philadelphia. But no U.S. hospital has been more carefully designed to avoid the old inadequacies than Houston's Anderson...
...maid is beating my brains out for me to get her a ticket for Cinerama, but she hasn't shown any hankering to visit the Red Star pavilion. See what I mean...
Happy Hospitality. But the delegation, in the happy swirl of rice wine, tinkling gongs, friendly smiles and endless toasts, seemed not to notice. Premier Chou En-lai himself welcomed them at the Peking Pavilion of Purple Light, launching a round of banqueting, toast-drinking and speechmaking that lasted for 19 days. In Peking's sweltering heat, the Laborites downed innumerable toasts, consumed huge quantities of shark fins, lotus root and roasted duck skin, amid a continuous flutter of fans. At banquets, Chou linked arms with
...American in Damascus was worried about the prestige of his country. Here the Russians had spent half a million dollars building the biggest pavilion at the Damascus Fair, while the U.S. Government had refused to let him spend even $15,000. Harris Peel, the USIS chief in Damascus, cast about for "something that would steal the show" yet cost nothing. His solution: Cinerama, which had never before been shown outside...