Word: som
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which controls most of Metropolitan Boston's riverside parks-took the action after Somerville officials had attacked the proposed lease of the land to the yacht club. Arguing that this city could not afford the loss of the recreation land, Rep. Vincent Pire (D-Som.) said, "Harvard should stay on the banks of the Charles and leave the Mystic River alone...
...President canceled minor appointments, put the White House Situation Room on special alert, and went before television cameras with a som ber, seven-minute statement. "The purported closing of the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping has brought a new and grave dimension to the crisis," said Johnson. "The U.S. considers the gulf to be an international waterway and feels that a blockade of Israeli shipping is illegal and potentially disastrous...
...Som eare Aboure, some are Agni. They won't understand." Her unspoken question was: What would it all accomplish, beyond satisfying my own need to make a gesture? I saw that I was really debating with myself and losing. "Well," I said, shamefaced, abashed at my own lack of resolution, "why don't we put it off, then?" "Putting it off," of course, meant dropping the whole idea. I backed out quickly and disappeared. In retrospect the memory is painful...
...three greatest architects of the 20th century. Most of the selections also included Warnecke, because of his association with the President. There were several votes for a corporation, the giant firm of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. These were counted as votes for Gordon Bunshaft, the SOM partner who designed Yale's Beinecke Rare Book Library...
...design is the work of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, who were asked by Macy's to design a new store on a cramped site in Elmhurst, LI a crowded New York suburb. Since there wasn't enough room for the conventional parking lot, SOM architects simply wrapped the parking space around the store...