Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain, was shown by Ford Motor Co. Power-operated equipment lifts the aluminum boat from its roof cradle and carries it overside for launching. Power gadgets also erect a tent with a full-size bed, move the kitchen onto the tailgate and thrust out a canopy to provide shade for the cook. Cost for experimental model: $40,000; if produced in quantity: below...
...Gulbenkian's secretary. In Mr Five Per Cent, Biographer Hewins relies on the even-tempered viewpoint of Gulbenkian's only son. Nubar. now 62 and described as a flamboyantly bearded and monocled devotee of fox hunts, orchids and Rolls-Royces. Both books are unevenly written and a shade hero-worshipful. What emerges from each is a curiously fascinating bifocal vision that combines moments of startling intimacy with impersonal middle-distance reporting of Middle Eastern oil developments...
...stretch wildly waving a towel, the signal that there was a chance to break the world's record (3:58). As usual, Herb Elliott's competition was only the clock, and he fell a few ticks short. Time for the mile: 3:58.1. Tabori was second, a shade on the wrong side of four minutes. Well beaten, Delany hung on to third...
...result is a series of thin marble cutouts, rubbed pebble-smooth, that sometimes suggest chic mannequin sil houettes, and sometimes ancient Gaulish coins. Hajdu also produces metal bas-reliefs, which he calls "orchestrations of light and shade," that bring to mind the pulsations of a Spanish dance or the interlocking vapor trails of high-flying jets. At best they reflect the inspiration he found in the art of ancient Mesopotamia, to create a world "real in facts but invented in forms...
Johnson, filling the huge void caused by the absence of both Jim Doty and John DuMoulin, excelled his best-ever toss by 15 feet to win the event at 157 feet. Abbott made up for the loss of Doty by winning the shotput at a shade under 46 feet...