Word: stones
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson for asking Earl Warren to head the commission investigating John Kennedy's assassination. Chief Justice Harlan Stone refused Franklin Roosevelt's request to look into the vexatious problem of how the nation was to get its desperately needed rubber during World War II. Such an extracurricular duty, Stone wrote, exposes a Justice to attack and "indeed invites it," inevitably impairing "his value as a judge...
...anything, more charmingly bucolic than it had been in the Middle Ages. The few visitors to the town, an hour's drive northwest of Cannes, usually came to view its medieval ruins-a chateau, a church, towers and gates that had decayed into an exquisite stone latticework. In 1961, Bargème found a benefactress-or rather, Madame Germaine De Maria, now 56, found Bargème. Their relationship has led to more distress than Bargème has known in several centuries...
...awake. He rises early in the morning, puts in a quick ten minutes of exercise, by 8 a.m. is hard at work in the white stucco studio in Majorca designed for him by Architect Jose Luis Sert, in 1956. Both the studio and the 13-room, 200-year-old stone farmhouse behind it which serves Miró as an annex, are crammed with his new paintings and sculptures. Among them stand the found objects that furnish at once a touchstone to reality and the impetus to further dreams: a child's toy ladybug, a rock with...
...house sits like a jester in a court of sedate plutocrats. Its chimney is rakishly out of plumb. The roof shingles are a motley mismatch. An attached garage is nothing but a skeleton of stone pillars, and the garden is dominated by a magnificent stand of ragweed. The house shows not its facade but its robust posterior to Heathcote Road, one of the best addresses in New York's pleasant suburban town of Scarsdale...
...Wine: Fermented juice of grapes." -Webster's International Dictionary "Crush the pulp and stone of dates in a container, mix with hot water, clarify with lead acetate, add sugar to the mixture, then add chloridic acid. Heat to 60 or 70 degrees Centigrade. Let cool immediately and neutralize with potash." -Fake-wine recipe quoted in Italian court