Word: sheaf
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Seattle's legacy will include most of the fair's most dramatic buildings. There is the Space Needle, typifying the theme of "the world of Century 21''; a sort of Eiffel Tower dipped in concrete, its sheaf-of-wheat shape rises 608 ft. and makes it the tallest structure west of the Mississippi. The 3½-acre Washington State Coliseum, blessedly free of interior supports and decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national...
...from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense sprang the Conservative Member of Parliament from Solihull, Sir Martin Lindsay. A sheaf of papers in his hand and blood in his eye, Sir Martin accused the Beaverbrook papers of conducting "a sustained vendetta" against Britain's royal family, moved that the House of Commons censure Lord Beaverbrook for "authorizing over the last few years in the newspapers controlled by him more...
...over Europe last week, Russians were pushing this line. They had begun late last year when a Foreign Ministry official in Moscow called in West German Ambassador Hans Kroll and handed him a sheaf of papers. "You can do what you want with this," remarked the Russian with a shrug. It was a long and rambling document without address or signature, but it was obviously important. For one thing, it referred to the "gifted" German people and used other flattering words that contrasted with the insults of the past. Pointedly ignoring Moscow's East German satellite, the memorandum declared...
...Auditorium on Washington's 23rd Street waited 400 anxious reporters, cameramen, radio and TV technicians, as well as an assortment of high school students, foreign visitors and stenographers who had wangled accreditation for the occasion. Offstage, in a small anteroom, stood Secretary of State Dean Rusk, clutching a sheaf of intelligence cables, prepared to give the star a quick final briefing. Then the President of the United States arrived, trailing a funereal squad of black-suited aides; nine still photographers, as if on cue, frantically recorded the presidential progress to the podium. At the sides of the room, boxed...
...customary travel-poster view of a bullfight, there is only one huge photo, spread across two pages-a memorable view of miles of rolling red earth planted with olive trees. Half a dozen postcard-size shots could have been crammed into the space, producing nothing more than a sheaf of postcards...