Word: unveils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Fort Worth civic leaders heard a Los Angeles and Manhattan community planner unveil a bold solution to their problem. They were advised to dig deep into the heart of their beloved Texas to create subterranean truck lanes, park every arriving automobile, and turn streets within a downtown square mile into a pedestrians' paradise of shrubbery, statuary, malls, covered walks and sidewalk cafes. The cost ($100 million, according to some guesses) would be partially paid in parking fees and through higher tax values...
...truth seems to be even more grievous. What the published record does better than either memoirists or events could do is to unveil the "spirit of Yalta," which showed itself before Yalta and is not dead yet. The mark of this spirit is a stubborn refusal to face political reality. From beginning to end of the Yalta record there is an almost total absence of recognition that justice is the only enduring restraint upon power, the only basis for order. On the American side in the fateful days of conference in the Crimea, there were vague dreams, but an almost...
...last week, Yugoslav officials dedicated a cemetery containing the graves of some 700 Russians and more than 1,300 Yugoslavs. All had died just ten years before, in a battle to liberate Yugoslavia's capital from the Nazis. A string was pulled and a sheet fell away to unveil a large bas-relief showing Red army soldiers and Yugoslav partisans driving at German troops...
Thus did Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co., the General Motors of the outboard motor industry, unveil its 1955 lines of silent 3-h.p. to 25-h.p. Evinrude motors. With them-plus a similarly silenced line of Johnson outboards-Outboard, Marine's President Joseph G. Rayniak hopes to boost next year's sales 20% over 1954's record $70 million volume. He thinks that by attacking noise he is going after the outboard motor industry's No. 1 enemy...
...team's 68 points in the Saturday victory over B.U., but both are pivot men, and have to watch each other play from the bench. This week in practice Shepard has been trying to work out a system of playing them simultaneously and he may unveil it against Wesleyan...