Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Building Revived. In West Berlin, the Reichstag once again became habitable. A huge, florid structure of Silesian sandstone-since 1894 the home of whatever democracy Germany knew from the days of Bismarck through the Weimar Republic-the building had bulked vacant and lifeless ever since it was gutted by fire on Feb. 27, 1933. The Nazis claimed the fire was kindled by Communists as the signal for a Red uprising, and a confused Dutch boy named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain...
...Earl of Home will soon be legally and for the rest of his life Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. His next move will be to run for Parliament from a safe Tory seat. However, he is eager to represent a Scottish constituency, and since no suitable seat will be vacant in the immediate future, he may have to hold on to his title temporarily and sit in the Other Place until the right Scottish by-election comes along. To avoid this impractical arrangement, Tories hoped to postpone Parliament's recall next week. How ever, Harold Wilson brusquely rejected...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...Holyoke Center were a low four stories Mr. Weil would like its height, but would probably complain that is was not airy enough since it pushed him into the street. So he would again write an editorial requesting "something spacious and airy" and "uncluttered" which presumably means a vacant parking lot of 85,600 sq. ft. adjacent to Harvard Square. The four million cubic feet of desperately needed University-owned space would then be placed below the vacant parking lot or in the Harvard Stadium. Such solutions would remove the eyesore...
...distance, they have twisted into a vortex of somber terrors. The grandmother stands to one side, ignoring the menace of a sunflower that ignites the trees. Reflected fire gleams in the old woman's vacant eye. At the side of the painting, the girl adds a caption in verse...