Word: seams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself from the lower ranks of educational society into the upper reaches--despite the interference of the state legislature. The short-sighted efforts of a few senators on Beacon Hill brought about the president's resignation early last month, ignited public controversy, and demonstrated the tremendous changes in the seam-splitting state university...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout...
...expected to take at least three years. When it is finished, the site will be filled, graded and, if possible, reforested. Eventually some of it may become a park-a fitting monument to the city fathers who dumped combustible rubbish against a seam of coal...
...food and, inevitably, a map. For $25 apiece, a guide packed them to within a ridge's climb of Weaver's Needle, helped them set up camp, and left. For days Ferreira and Fernandez searched for Lost Dutchman's gold. Once they pounced on a gleaming seam-but it turned out to be pyrite-fool's gold. Fernandez began to tire of the hunt, took to spending long hours practicing a fast draw with his .44-cal. revolver. Ferreira searched on, growing angrier as Fernandez refused to help...
...Cover) Through the cloakrooms and corridors outside the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives the seam-faced, stumpy, blue-eyed man moved restlessly, relentlessly. Trying to collar enough votes to sustain the presidential veto of a budget-busting. Democratic-sponsored rural electrification bill, he took fresh aim at each of his Republican colleagues. To one he snapped: "Don't you forget that in 1960 you're going to have to run on Eisen hower's record." To another he appealed: "This is a straight political issue. Are you going to let the Democrats get away with...