Word: stormed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cleaned and stripped of nails. Included in the construction are two fireplaces and one chimney for inside barbecue which required around 3,000 bricks . . . The house has 57 windows . . . one 15-ft.-by-20-ft. basement for furnace and shower, and one 12-ft.-by-12-ft. storm cellar which he dug by hand...
...North African strongpoint. In the ages that followed, the great cities of man crumbled, but their citizens found a spiritual home in Saint Augustine's City of God. To this day, Christian churches of all denominations draw upon the theological system that Augustine tirelessly nailed down before the storm broke. Yet the 20th century is haunted by a question: Is Christian civilization going the way of the Roman Empire? Perhaps, say prophets such as Britain's Historian Arnold J. Toynbee. Surely, said a Christian theologian last week during a visit to the U.S. from behind the Iron Curtain...
...pearl grey, upholstered, perfumed room in Paris' Avenue Montaigne, the buyers broke into a storm of bravos. Soon the news was pouring out to a waiting world: "Christian Dior today dropped the waistline to the hips, flattened the bust and sent women's fashions back to the Jazz Age of the 1920s . . . Dior has abolished bosoms...
Under the Wing. Many a company now gives courses in plumbing, upholstering, how to make furniture, screens and storm windows, how to paint and lay tiles. Georgia Tech has a twice-weekly course for 23 doctors, businessmen and housewives on painting, wallpapering and carpentry. A dealer for Hachmeister, Inc., which makes floor coverings, has even gone so far as to advertise: "We guarantee your work...
...partnership policy has stirred up a storm of protest from public-power supporters. They charge that it is a "giveaway" to private interests of hydroelectric resources that belong to all the people. Actually, the partnership policy simply means that the Federal Government, instead of going it alone, will act as a partner of state, local and private interests in building big new hydroelectric projects. Local funds will pay for the power features of the dams; the Federal Government will pay for whatever share is allotted to irrigation, flood control and land reclamation...