Word: teak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...
...many citizens criticized Carter's plan and proposed energy-saving alternatives, including investment credits for the installation of more efficient cooling and heating systems. "The President's 80° proposal is intolerable," declared Houston Mayor Jim McConn. "With Houston's high humidity, it would cause the teak in Jones [symphony] Hall to fall off the walls, the glue binding books in the library to crystallize, clothing in department stores to mildew and blood donors to faint." He claims that his alternative-setting thermostats at 76° F, starting air conditioning later, shutting it off earlier and turning...
...Suites for 50 Senators, with two bathrooms per suite, 16-ft. ceilings and teak and cherry wood paneling. (The paneling alone will cost $1.5 million...
...remodeling job in Boston's John F. Kennedy Federal Building included $40,000 for a teak-paneled HEW office. According to Howard Davia, the GSA's director of audits, "In essence, all the files and vouchers and statements of work done were phony...
...when the Soviet delegation-including Gromyko, Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin and Veteran Interpreter Viktor Sukhodrev-arrived at the eighth-floor conference room of the U.S. SALT delegation office last Wednesday morning, Vance responded in kind. He guided the Russians to the side of the 25-ft.-long teak table that faced the windows, giving them a good view of the water-skiers cavorting on Lake Geneva, and of the sun. However, the American delegation-Vance, Ambassador Malcolm Toon, Chief Arms Negotiator Paul Warnke and others-did have to face a wall ornamented by three almost blinding LeRoy Neiman sport prints...