Word: rivet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watching workers hammering at the panels, Khrushchev picked up one of their discarded rivets, pondered its alloy, and pocketed it with a sly smile: "Look, I am stealing this. I think the United States can afford the loss of one rivet." Then he moved on, admiring the cut of a worker's quilted nylon and Fiberglas jacket, watching how it zipped. "Very practical. I like the cut," he grinned. "We must get the pattern-or, if not, borrow this...
...work ground to a halt, Théas appealed to Pope Pius XII, who put him in touch with energetic, persuasive Monsignor George Roche, onetime parish priest in Poitiers, France, head of a lay order, Opus Cenaculi (work of the cenacle). The group, originally backed by Melvina Rivet, a wealthy Canadian widow in her 80s, had raised millions to build schools and churches in France and Italy...
Roche underwrote the basilica, but in return demanded complete control of all basilica finances in Lourdes. He formed a small controlling group called "Association of the Friends of Lourdes" (among the members: Backer Melvina Rivet), which promptly required shrine passes from all pilgrims (86^ for French, $1.72 for foreigners), launched sidelines to bring in more money-sale of medals, souvenirs, books. Aghast at more commercialism, Bishop Théas protested to Rome, which finally sent a coadjutor bishop to keep an eye on the enterprising association...
Wilson is not alone in a feeling that Harvard should and will take the lead in any new movement having a certain intellectual character. "The West Coast experiments give modern jazz an intellectual aura, and this should rivet the Ivy Leaguer to the idea of jazz as an art form. What we need first is a different attitude in the Music Department. Then we need a club with a definite idea--a fixed purpose--and some means to endure when the original members leave. Once this attracts the Harvard market things will really move fast...
...White House for Franklin Roosevelt. She had flown the four-star flag of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance and had fought in many a Pacific battle. As July 1945 drew to a close, Indy had just steamed 2,091 miles from the Farallons to Diamond Head at a record-breaking, rivet-loosening 28 knots. Reason for the haste: she was on her way to the Marianas with an unprecedented cargo-the components of the atom bomb for Hiroshima...