Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process, however, Wright created new problems. While his structure, shaped like a snail shell with portholes, may attract, it also repels as no mere skyscraper can. In his grand manner he committed glaring faults (for instance, the office space was designed for gnomes...
Additional enterprises are in the works. A report of Dustin M. Burke, an H.S.A. director, says "it is hoped that one or two new businesses may be added each year to continue this growth process." The sudden creation of H.S.A., its impressive expansion and ambitious plans have aroused criticism. Established businessmen in the Square have feared the strategic position of H.S.A. in student sales; undergraduate publications, its potential as a competitor for advertising revenue; and other student businesses, its seeming desire to absorb all undergraduate enterprises into itself...
...process, Nkrumah has pulled every political trick he knows. He has deported some critics, jailed others. At least nine M.P.s belonging to the opposition defected to the C.P.P. when Nkrumah made it clear that, unless they did so, no government money would be spent in their constituencies. And in persuading ordinary villagers to see the light, Nkrumah's government got good service out of the Builders' Brigade-ostensibly a kind of Civilian Conservation Corps, but actually an army of young toughs in yellow shirts, green trousers and red caps...
Part of the blame could be put on the horrendous playing conditions of the Los Angeles Coliseum, a converted football stadium that permitted the biggest crowds in World Series history (277,750 in three games) but nearly ruined both teams in the process. The cozy screen in leftfield (251 ft. at the foul line) clanged like a Chinese gong under the impact of balls that would have been easy outs in other parks. On occasion, outfielders staggered about mazily as flies descended out of the sun. Batters strained to pick out the ball from the backdrop of shirtsleeved bleacherites...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging." The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much abused one. The pledge-making mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and Sunday School but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system of government. Harvard...