Word: slung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barcelona pavilion, a low-slung one-story jewel brilliantly combining such elegant materials as travertine, Tinian marble, gray glass, onyx and steel, was Mies' first major public building to demonstrate many of these concepts. It immediately established its designer as a master. The following year he replaced Walter Gropius as the director of the Dessau Bauhaus, only to close up the experimental workshop three years later in protest against Nazi restrictions. In 1938, an invitation to head the school of architecture at the Armour Institute (since renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology) led Mies to Chicago and the full...
...strong enough to withstand the rigors of mining. Using bolts of tent canvas, he devised what quickly came to be known around San Francisco as "those pants of Levi's." Over the years, denim replaced canvas, and Levi's acquired their distinctive indigo-blue color and low-slung design. Strauss, a bachelor, died in 1902, leaving the company to four nephews...
Most of the administrators put up at least token resistance, and Epps resisted strongly. All, however, were shoved out of the building. Thomas was carried out bodily, slung over the back of a demonstrator. As Thomas was carried out, Berg grabbed his head, and Thomas's glasses fell to the floor. Other demonstrators returned them...
...boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk at Marrakesh's Mamounia Hotel boasted last month, probably falsely). The rest have to make do with tents, trailers or sleeping bags slung somewhere along Morocco's 1,000 miles of beach. The squeeze in accommodations will be eased by new hotels currently under construction: two motel corporations, Ramada Inns and Holiday Inns, are furiously digging away...
Snowmobiling is snowballing. In the past five years, sales of the low-slung motor-driven ski scooters (price range: $595 to $1,500) have leaped from 15,000 to 225,000 annually. This season, more than 1,000 snowmobile races and ral lies are being held in the northern U.S., featuring such varied events as the sla lom, jumping and drag racing. Though many of the competitions like to bill themselves as the "largest," "richest," "most unique" or simply "world's foremost," Alaska's annual Midnight Sun 600 Snowmobile Race is indisputably the world's coldest...