Word: pentagons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered the State Department to vacate its gingerbread, high-corridored building across the street from the White House to make way for the Budget Bureau, Office of Economic Stabilization and other executive agencies. State will move to the War Department's pre-Pentagon building on Virginia Avenue...
...welcome home from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of 23 awards to artists, writers and musicians as a "practical recognition" of their past achievements. Among Levine's past achievements: String Quartet, in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, a painting in the Pentagon...
...been a one-ring circus, it was transferred to Bad Nauheim. Along the roads leading to the Hessian spa were signs in the shaving-cream tradition: "Five miles to Lichfield trials," "Four miles. . . ," etc. In the streets, there was more glittering brass than could be found anywhere outside the Pentagon...
...Saturday afternoon and the Pentagon was virtually deserted when the top commanders of all the services crowded into Secretary of War Patterson's spacious office. They were there to hear Winston Churchill, who had come to renew his ties with the men he had known well during the war, to meet those he had known only from the communiques...
...wounded by a failure. When I lay an egg, I am worried lest it become a chain reaction." He wishes people would stop comparing his new works with his old. "It's unfair to compare me with myself," he says. "My mind is involved and peculiar like the Pentagon Building, with several levels and ramps...