Word: stucco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proceedings started off with a Bang - a lieutenant named Bang passed out the voting slips. In La Maison Blanche, a forlorn, peeling stucco villa overlooking Cap St. Jacques on the South China Sea, 58 officers of South Viet Nam's Military Revolutionary Council sat on hard, schoolroom-style chairs and scribbled their votes on the ballots. A colonel chalked up the results on a blackboard: Khanh, 50; Defense Minister General Tran Thien Khiem, 5; General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, 1; General Do Cao Tri, 1: blank ballot...
With Spy sure to earn at least $200,000, Cornwell recently quit as a British consul in Hamburg and moved self, wife and three growing sons to Crete, where the British income tax does not reach. There, in a white stucco house within 30 yards of the sea, he is working over the final draft of his next book...
Named for the Hollywood street it faces, Tamarind is a complex of white-stucco-walled buildings where the lights generally burn late seven nights a week. "This place is a kind of a pressure cooker," says Director Wayne, 46. "If you don't have a lot of time to fool around, dammit, you don't fool around." The time ends in 1965, when the Ford subsidies stop and Tamarind will have to try to carry on by itself...
...modernistic" style - forests of blue mirrors, thickets of chromium stair rails, and jungles of neon tubing; it also gave America the fan dance. New York's 1939 fair brought a sense of monumentality combined with reason to architecture, with its carefully planned plazas of glass brick and fluted stucco. It also floated the Aquabelle...
...McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plunged into their assignment: to find out whether the war on the Communists has been hurt by the Diem regime's barefisted handling of dissident Buddhists. In a windowless, soundproofed room of Saigon's cream stucco...