Word: sulphurously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mount Clemens, Mich., a former spa still reminded of its past by the faint odor of sulphur water, civic morale has been bolstered by the erection of the $350,000 headquarters of the Mount Clemens Federal Savings & Loan Association. Architects Meathe, Kessler & Associates of Grosse Pointe, designed a graceful concrete hat with upturned brim, decorated it with plastic skylights, and surrounded it with fountains and gardens...
...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...
...Governors of 15 Southern and border states last week gathered at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., in annual conference. Their agenda was laden with such subjects as highway safety and budget administration. But where the Governors really got their kicks was in talking about, and maneuvering toward, 1964's presidential election...
...Tired. In the grand old game at White Sulphur Springs, there were even some international cards for a hand or two. Some Kennedy critics had been watching with great interest Dr. Edward Teller's outspoken Washington testimony against the Administration-backed atomic test ban treaty. It would, they decided, be a fine idea to invite Teller to explain his treaty objections to the conference. Teller accepted, promised to catch an overnight train to White Sulphur Springs...
...gone along with the invitation to begin with, changed his mind, rescinded the invitation. But Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could not remember, because "it was dark." At week's end the Governors went home. They may not have solved too many...