Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faction for Action." Like many utopias before it. Washington Square Village fell short of its promise. The "carports" and "self-contained shopping" promised in the brochure failed to materialize. Ten ants complained of "tinny" stoves, faulty airconditioning, erratic elevators, bugs in the basement, cracks in the plaster, rips in the corridor wall covering...
Danger is Stirling Moss's obsession. In his long companionship with peril he has driven a racing car with one leg in a plaster cast. He has sped around curves while nearly blinded by glass fragments in his eyes. His crash helmet has been dented by a rival's car hurtling just over his head. And it is mostly because of his fascination with danger that Britain's Moss, 30, is by common consent the world's fastest driver...
...modesty was becoming. During the construction of Rockefeller Center, he resisted all efforts "to plaster the family name all over a piece of real estate." gave in only on the urgent pleas of his five sons. When his father died at 97, he refused to drop the "Junior" from his name, because, he said, there could never be more than one John D. Rockefeller. Just as there never can be another John D. Rockefeller...
Gangs of agitators 70-and 80-strong descend on villages, plaster handbills on walls, harangue the people over loudspeakers, and turn every threat and promise on each individual farmer to join "the beautiful socialist society." Some farmers have committed suicide rather than submit. Many have slaughtered their livestock. The Erfurt Communist newspaper, Das Volk, recently reported 380 barn burnings in its district. And the most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after...
...loses it-or so it appears. Soon, throughout Edinburgh, copies of the verses are falling like fig leaves. The barometer of conventional morality falls dangerously too. Everyone burns but few marry; Arbuthnot himself corners a young wench in his office, and clerks on the floor below watch anxiously as plaster flakes off the ceiling...