Word: petered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against which the tombs nestled. Ruthlessly, though with great care not to disturb the dead, most of the tombs were sliced off to the level of the ramp, and their interiors were rammed full of earth. On this ramp Constantine began the construction of the first Church of St. Peter...
Romanoff and Juliet (by Peter Ustinov) is the sort of title that suggests it might have inspired the rest of the show. In any case, the show itself-a comedy laid in "the smallest country in Europe" -has the Soviet ambassador's son and the U.S. ambassador's daughter falling madly in love. It has the two embassies in a predictably farcical tizzy over the news, and it has Actor-Playwright Ustinov, as the bearded, pince-nezed, messily over-adorned head of the country issuing directives to his two-man army, lending a sly hand to the romance...
...step in with precious dollars to support the pound, the Bank of England, whose reserves were cut by some $500 million in August and September, was able to sell pounds for dollars and recoup some of its losses. Yet no one knew better than Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft that the fight to maintain Britain's currency will not be won overnight. Said he: "We recognize that this is a long, stiff haul. Our policy is to halt the increase in the supply of money. In years ahead, it will be harder to earn profits under this policy...
...Medical Center was formed in the summer of 1956, when seven hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital--combined with the Medical School in an attempt to remedy their common financial problem...
...other foreground figures, all about 10 ft. tall, almost equal the central pair. Particularized, rather than idealized, they represent a triumphant manipulation of space, in gilded robes and meticulously formed figures, transcending the stiff, hierarchic form of the early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin...