Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anticlimax. Exhausted, Mendès went to bed. A few minutes later, at 2:42 a.m., the cease-fire agreements for Laos and Viet Nam were signed by second-tier officials in a small room off the main council chamber in the Palais des Nations. The ceremony, watched only by a handful of photographers and minor officials, took just 7½ minutes. Ten hours later, the gallant Cambodians signed the revised agreement that may some day make the difference between freedom and Communist slavery for them and for Laos...
...week, showed signs of new vigor, new spirit, new determination-even a new direction. In the gilt-and-red-velvet San Carlo Opera House (not air-conditioned), 703 delegates, plus party bigwigs and hangers-on, listened to some 100 speeches over the course of four days. On the top tier of boxes a huge banner read: Il Partito nella Lotta per la Democrazia (The Party in the Struggle for Democracy...
...widespread than most televiewers, busy ogling Lucy and Groucho, are aware. In Houston's city jail, eight electronic cameras scan the corridors and cells. In the Redlands, Calif, jail, two cameras mounted in a bulletproof blister overlook the exercise yard, another, perched in the wall opposite the cell tier, swings from side to side like a metronome, staring balefully at the men in their bunks. Television eyes peer down at customers and clerks in the Alpha Beta grocery in Pasadena, Calif., watching for shoplifters...
Declining along with notes and mortgages although at a much more gradual pace was real estate. Desiring to hedge against inflation, Treasurer Edward W. Hooper brought the investment fraction tier up in real estate to a high of two-fifths in 1881--the year he acquired the land now occupied by the downtown Jordan Marsh...
...Garden came the company after a triumphant 19-week, 24-city tour of the U.S. and Canada, during which Sadler's Wells netted more than $600.000 beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn came...