Word: pillar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London will not knuckle under to harassment. In the nuclear age, Gibraltar's strategic importance has sharply diminished, but the symbolic value of the fortress known to Homer as the Pillar of Hercules remains. Said one British official: "We'll keep the Rock if we have to supply it by airlift until the Spanish cut out this nonsense...
Died. Felix Frankfurter, 82, pillar of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1939 to 1962; of a heart attack; in Washington...
Moments later, birds' wings flutter above the benighted churchmen, who gape at the charred pillar, already uncertain whether they have incinerated a heretic, or a saint...
...businessmen as a result of a new directive (Amended #137.5 (a) Gratuities) by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's command post. The directive, which replaces the individual judgment by which officers have hitherto been allowed to operate, specifically forbids them to accept not only gifts and gratuities but that pillar of modern U.S. society, the expense-account lunch. "This thing is absurd," says Louisiana Congressman F. Edward Hebert. "It means officers can't accept a Coke or a ham sandwich. It says in effect that an admiral can be bribed by a lunch." Cried an anguished aircraft-company representative...
...those who have come forward, nearly all, like Graham Sutherland, Ben Nicholson and Francis Bacon, are loners who have attracted few, if any, significant imitators. One reason for the dearth of painters has been the traditional conservatism of British critics and collectors. Even after 49 years as a pillar of the Royal Academy, the great Joseph Turner was so fearful of critical scorn that he never risked exhibiting his last, prophetically impressionist, paintings. "For years, the English art scene drove me mad with tedium," says Bryan Robertson, director of London's prestigious, avant-garde Whitechapel Gallery. "Nobody cared...