Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public eye, Arkansas' John L. (for Little) McClellan is a cold-eyed, stone-voiced, racket-busting U.S. Senator. But his few close friends know him for a sensitive, compassionate man who keeps his feelings hidden deep because they have been so sorely tested by sorrow. McClellan's mother died bearing him; his first wife died after they were unhappily divorced; his second wife died in 1935 of spinal meningitis. Son Max, by the first marriage, also died of meningitis while serving with the Army in North Africa in 1943. And in 1949, three days after Max was reburied...
...They tore off the tarpaulin and started pulling people into the street. One of my colleagues, Ibrahim Hashim, the Arab Union's Deputy Premier, who was sitting beside me, died from a stone hit in the head. Everyone who was pulled down was cut to bits. I saw a young German or Swiss of about 30 grabbed by the head and pulled down by the mob. About eight people started slashing and stabbing him and beating him with rods. Then they cut off his head. I did not see the death of the American, Burns, but later...
...what binds them together is neither friendship nor love but a mixture of sickly attraction and grisly revulsion. Jean Paul Sartre, contributing an enthusiastic forward, explains: "If we take a look at what goes on inside people, we glimpse a moiling of flabby, many-tentacled evasions . . . Roll away the stone of the commonplace and we find running discharges, slobberings, mucous; hesitant amoeba-like movements. [Nathalie Sarraute's] vocabulary is incomparably rich in suggesting the slow, centrifugal creeping of these viscous, live solutions...
...Washington on Monday morning hung oppressive and muggy. At 8 o'clock the rain began to fall in a dismal drizzle, slicking the streets, washing the stone and concrete faces of the capital. The raindrops beaded the row of semicircular windows off the White House south lawn and snaked down the panes. Behind the windows, seated in his red leather chair, President Eisenhower pored grimly over the news dispatches and diplomatic intelligence that told of Iraq's fall...
...closets or kitchen windows in Niemeyer houses; builders sweat over specifications that often make light of construction problems. At Brasilia the builder of the Palace of the Dawn reported that each V-shaped pillar "took two weeks to frame and pour, another two weeks to face with small stone squares as specified." But, he added: "It turned out very pretty...