Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealthy airplane manufacturer), Marie Stopes founded the world's first birth-control clinic in London. At its opening, crowds yelled that she was immoral, threw brickbats. But London's women made the clinic a success. Marie Stopes founded others up and down Britain. Gradually the stone throwing and vilification stopped (though the London Times for a while slapped a ban on ads for her books and clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in a dozen languages. And sexology has marched far beyond the outposts...
...Hatfield, Lyman Wood, and Bill Stone appear as the main backers of Winthrop's attempt to regain the championship of two years...
Johns Hopkins identified it 30 years ago as the Philistine city of Gath, home town of the giant Goliath who died when Slingshot Expert David sunk a stone in his forehead. The Israeli government named a nearby settlement Kiryat Gath (Gath-town), and settlers were proud of Gath's Biblical background, even though the city and Goliath had been anti-Israelite...
...nine metal spheres gleaming in the daytime and flashing tiny lights at night, the Atomium dominates the Fair. The architecture, too, smacks of modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...
...Frank Lloyd Wright's "Falling Water," at Bear Run, Pa. (1936), a reinforced concrete and natural stone summer house perched over a waterfall...