Word: spruceness
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...honor the "Rambam,"* Israel's Ministry of Religious Affairs last year decided to spruce up the tomb. Plans included a concrete roof and a fence. But when a bulldozer started digging the foundations, workers found bones from other old graves near by. Experts were not sure whether they were remains of Jews, Moslems or Crusaders, and Tiberias' rabbis ordered them buried in unhallowed ground...
...those whose exams are comfortably behind them the best skiing in New England is at Stowe and Franconia. While Stowe's Mt. Mansfield is only fair, Spruce Peak was reported "good to excellent" last night...
...back from Gettysburg to the White House a day earlier than planned; she dominated the traditional holiday reception the next morning for the 700 members of the White House staff. Accompanied by Mamie Eisenhower, in a Christmas-red wool jersey dress, the President accepted congratulations beneath an 18-ft. spruce Christmas tree decorated with silver tinsel and electric candles. Everyone at the reception got a Christmas present from the new grandfather: a print of an oil painting that the President started the week before his late heart attack and finished painting in the hospital at Denver. The print showed...
Kwakiutl chief once explained. Warriors, squaws and children worked feverishly to amass a sufficiently impressive array of gifts to "put down" a competitor at the next potlatch. Materials were close at hand: spruce and cedar for the elaborate carved totems and 60-man canoes, horn for spoons and charms, root fibers for baskets, and mountain-goat wool for blankets. Today the brightly colored wood carvings still bear rough adze marks, but they rank high as primitive art, ranging in style from naturalism to symbolic abstraction (see Color Pages). As demonstrated in the permanent collection of Oregon's Portland...
...nerve center of the Secretariat is the immaculate 38th floor, paneled with Norwegian spruce and aflame with modern paintings: Picasso, Matisse, Braque. There, amid his paintings, toying with a small cigar at his clean Swedish-made desk, sits the man in charge of it all: Dag Hammarskjold...