Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Banks, Base. The World Trade Center will scrape the sky 1,3531 ft. above an area where nearly every other building is topped with turret, lantern and steeple. The question is not whether it should be modern (it has to be) but whether it is the kind of modern that lives with its surroundings. Yamasaki has avoided the acres-of-glass look, has instead invested the two towers with traceries of stainless steel arches in his familiar style, around the base and again just below the gently beveled roof line. Some people may yet feel that it is too stark...
This might never become the official G.O.P. campaign slogan, but there was certainly little time left for Republican chair warming. With the national elections only ten months ahead, the party treasury was still $225,000 in the hole. Republicans must scrape at least $12 million more to finance the upcoming campaigns. It could well be worth the price. With the civil rights issue still percolating in the South, and John Kennedy's charismatic control over the big-city Democrats gone from the North, Republicans figure 1964 might be ripe for winning a hefty share of the 435 House seats...
...didn't have to poach eggs for 20 people or sleep in a tent." What is the appeal of archaeology to an amateur? Finding skeletons and pots, yes. But, adds Miss Chase, after being winterbound in Manhattan, "It's so nice to sit in the sunshine and scrape the earth with a trowel...
...staging another takeover. By week's end Turkey's President, General Cemal Gursel, came to Inonu and asked him to form a new Cabinet; conceivably he might succeed, by persuading one of the small parties to join a coalition and picking, up enough defectors elsewhere to scrape up a parliamentary majority. After all, Inonu's immediate aim was not a stable government, but any government...
...vote for higher taxes and bond issues. This means that the board must appeal for cash to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state's Republican legislature for about one-third of its school funds, but New York does manage to scrape up more per pupil (an average of $625 last year) than any other major city...