Word: unveil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highlight of the ceremony came when Pforzheimer, whose husband Carl Pforzheimer donated the money for the four, was asked to unveil the name of the boat and christen it. When she unswathed the bow of the boat, she discovered to her surprise that it was embossed with her own name...
Just as the passage of time has somewhat diminished John F. Kennedy's reputation, so has it dimmed enthusiasm for the library that is to be built in his name by 1976 in Cambridge, Mass. Gathering in Boston last week to unveil a model of the complex, the Kennedy family faced the unthinkable: a large group of Massachusetts citizens who were plainly unhappy with them. Complained Father Richard Shmaruk, a priest who belongs to a task force that has been reviewing the design: "The aloofness of the complex and its impact on the community could produce a cross between...
PRESIDENT BOK is slated to unveil his new dean of the Faculty later this month; there is no reason to believe--given Bok's method of choosing and the trend towards Mass Hall domination of University Hall--that the new man will be much of an improvement over the old model...
...dreams, pathetic and insanely bored, weakly assuring himself that he has realized his potential at his job as "general factotum." He talks of his message right away, of the word that he will reveal to mankind before his death. The whole universe has been waiting, and he will soon unveil the truth, redeeming everything and making his own life worthwhile. When he decides to go through with it, he invites all of humanity to his tower to listen...
Against that backdrop in Ulster, Heath prepared in London to unveil his long-awaited new policy for Northern Ireland. Some proposals had already been announced: "an active, permanent and guaranteed place" for Ulster's Catholics in the government of Northern Ireland, massive economic aid to ease unemployment, and a gradual phasing down of the internment of I.R.A. suspects without trial, which had, more than anything else, infuriated the Catholic community. What had not been known was that Heath had also decided to place the police-up till now responsible to Stormont-as well as the army directly under Westminster...