Word: stuccos
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...roomy white stucco house with sweeping lawn and two-car garage, on a quiet street of suburban New Rochelle, 35 minutes from Manhattan, a tall (6 ft. 1½ in.), jowly clergyman was reading to his four-year-old granddaughter Anne. In the kitchen, his wife Hilda was baking a cherry pie. It was a rare domestic interlude, for the figure in black clericals with the silver pectoral cross* is more familiar these days in Washington or London or Africa than in New Rochelle. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry is perhaps the most influential leader of world Protestantism...
Morning after the elections in which the Soviet dictatorship of the proletariat ratified its contempt for the democratic process of free popular choice, the three Americans appointed by the State Department to observe the show went off to an interview with Nikita Khrushchev at the Communist Party's stucco-front headquarters near the Kremlin. The Americans-Cyril E. Black, professor of modern European history at Princeton University; Richard Scammon, director of elections research for Washington's Governmental Affairs Institute; and Hedley Donovan, managing editor of FORTUNE-were official guests of the Soviet government, repaying a visit that three...
...pink stucco palace of Monaco, Princess Grace calmly awaited her second child, and Prince Rainier amused himself in the royal zoo. But behind the apparent serenity of Their Serene Highnesses, a serious political crisis lurked in the shadows. For the first time in the eight-year reign of the chubby Prince, the National Council (which is elected by Monaco's male citizens, has only advisory power) dared to challenge Rainier's status as Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that...
That night Investigator Schwartz came churning up to the office he had kept in a small stucco building across from the new House Office Building. By that time, the subcommittee had a guard on the door, in the person of Staffer Stephen Angland, to prevent Schwartz from taking any more of its property. Schwartz raised his arms above his head, turned to newsmen and cried: "These newspapermen are witnesses that I am taking only my coat, scarf and hat. May I take my wife's photograph from my desk, or this chocolate bar, which is a present...
Flaming bottles of gasoline crashed against buses; hard-pressed police squads fired deadly volleys into swirling bands of rebels, carted hundreds of demonstrators off to jail. Under the yellow stucco arcades of old buildings, the air was blue-grey with tear gas. At one point five schoolboys popped onto the roof of a building overlooking El Silencio, hurled stones at a police bus below. Six cops piled out, sprayed the tops of all the buildings with rifle fire...