Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...landmark buildings of U.S. architecture. The marvel of its day, the Auditorium boasted the first central air-conditioning and heating system, the first "convertible theater" (huge ceiling panels dropped down to block off balconies, reducing the house from 4,000 to 3,000 seats) and a stage that could slide out to cover two-thirds of the orchestra. The acoustics were superb. "I would rather sing in the Auditorium than in any other hall in the world," said Tenor John McCormack, and Soprano Nellie Melba wished that she could "fold it up and take it with me everywhere...
...propellant in a nuclear rocket. In bubble chambers, it allows scientists to trace the path of sub-atomic particles. Gas companies are liquefying natural gas for more convenient and economical storage, and liquid nitrogen is now used to freeze the earth around excavations so that mud will not slide into the work area...
Blurred Issues. As for Wilson, he chose to ignore the unpleasant pence-and-shillings aspects of his policies. Instead, he launched into a 60-minute defense of his socialist achievements. "We have stopped the slide to social inequality," he said, adding that he had switched resources from defense to social services-"the right priority for a socialist government." Outlays for education, health and social security had increased by 45% under his stewardship. Unemployment? He hardly deigned to use the word. "We reject the creation of a permanent pool, as they say, of unemployment. Our whole policy is to secure full...
Orange. And Tony has the freedom and the privacy to wander down to his sparsely furnished basement workroom, which looks very much like a draftsman's workshop with its cardboard models, drawing board, slide rules, and rolls of blueprints...
...since the '30s have American writers been so interested in the novelistic possibilities of poverty and despair. This and the following two books, A Glance Away and The W.A.S.P., all deal in their own way with life in the slums. A Hall of Mirrors' three main characters slide along the rim of vagrancy in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is an alcoholic disk jockey who relies on soup kitchens for survival; his adoring girl friend has a look that makes cops mistake her for a prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets...