Word: spiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spared: Paris, Rome. Some 4,000 British churches were hit. Canterbury suffered glancing blows: the adjoining priory was badly smashed; Exeter Cathedral took a heavy pounding. At Coventry, scene of Germany's first spiteful "Baedeker raid," the cathedral spire stood alone-a stone tree in a stone desert...
...have changed the title, on the theory that Americans might mistake the picture for a documentary on gardening (TIME, Aug. 5). U.S. censors demanded further appeasement. (Example: as an undergraduate cutup, the rake, or notorious gentleman, one day climbs an Oxford monument to deposit a chamber pot on the spire.* The Johnston Office, either on the grounds that a thundermug was an affront to American plumberhood or that it was just plain vulgar, substituted a silk...
...last week, S.S.C.&B had signed up accounts totaling more than $5 million, announced that it would take on only one more client this year. Admen wondered who the new client would be. Into S.S.C.&B. this week went another R.&R. vice president, 38-year-old William Spire. His job at R.&R.: account executive for the $3 million account of the American Tobacco Co. (Pall Mall, Lucky Strike...
...Dear Old Spire." On his strolls through the city, Clark might walk through parks in which bank clerks now plant vegetable gardens, though many parks had already been used for another purpose: the burying of Red Army dead. The Hotel Sacher, which had witnessed much of the monarchy's history and more of its amours, is now a British officers' club. In the Kärntner Strasse (Vienna's Fifth Avenue) the stores are gaping and shattered; at the Cathedral of St. Stephen, Nazi artillery and flames have left the foreparts of the choir and the high...
...miraculous survival was one of the few signs of comfort the Viennese found in their city. Another was the battered but unbowed survival of the huge community housing projects which Vienna's Socialists had built for their workers in their brief, triumphant decades before Hitler. The gaunt spire in the center of the city and the workers' fortresslike homes on the outskirts (which Catholic Chancellor Dolfuss shelled in the bitter years of civil discord) were both symbols of Vienna's different pasts. They were also symbols of two sturdy European forces, Catholicism and Socialism. From the present...