Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grey, not red, is the color of Communism, and by that standard, Cuba's Marxists are succeeding mightily. Havana, once the gayest city in the hemisphere, continues its steady decline into uniform drabness. The people are quieter, the buildings shabbier, the cars fewer and more dilapidated. The U.S. cars that once taxied tourists around are vanishing fast-and so are the American buses. As bone-jouncing replacements, canvas-covered Russian trucks with wooden benches for seats rattle through the streets. A year and a half ago, Havana's news stalls still displayed a few back copies...
...Lower East Side, and with chicken soup and peaches to keep them going, a dozen pianists kept the ritual alive for 18 hours and 40 minutes until the final E was struck for the 840th time the next afternoon. The pianists, who were led by Composer John Cage, presented uniform poker faces to their audience, and everyone who bought one of the $5 tickets got a nickel refund for each 20 minutes he stayed in his seat...
...high-purity native ore and its postwar development of the KALDO process, which rivals Austria's vaunted L-D process as the most important new "oxygen" method of making steel. By lacing jets of oxygen into rotating, electrically heated furnaces, KALDO produces steel of exceptionally high and uniform quality...
...hear what they said because cameras were clicking loudly enough to supply every paper in the country with a front-page picture. When Rosie O'Donnell got his medal, he broke everyone up: "It was kind of a shock to be told that I had to wear my uniform, because I discarded it about a month and a half ago, and I had to get my ribbons off my pajamas this morning...
...Todd in Uniform. Though Author Ferber indulges in no idle name-dropping, people like the Lunts, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Noel Coward and George Kaufman troop through the pages of her book. In her one stage appearance in The Royal Family, a savagely funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons...