Word: vaults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stern's unfamiliar, spread-out country world seems full of traps and tortures. Night after night, as he makes his way home through a neighboring cluster of houses, two huge dogs vault a fence and savagely escort him, his wrist held wetly in the lead dog's teeth. Caterpillars munch away half of every shrub and tree on the place. "This house has been standing here for thirty years with whole shrubs," Stern moans. "We're in it a month and there are halves...
...field events, Jack Spitzberg took the high jump with a 6.2 1/2 effort. The Crimson, sans Ohiri, still swept the road jump as Peter Lamp placed first. Don Forte easily led the Harvard sweep of the pole vault, taking first with a vault...
...Meistersinger von Nürnberg is a devilishly difficult opera to perform well. At the very least, Composer Richard Wagner wrote requirements for a heldentenor of exceptional stamina, and power enough to vault the massed forces of the Wagnerian orchestra, and a baritone of considerable theatrical skill to probe the complex character of Cobbler Hans Sachs, one of grand opera's most intriguing heroes. It can also benefit greatly from a well-drilled chorus and properly poetic settings. Last week an audience at the Metropolitan Opera House saw a Meistersinger that had all of these attributes and more...
They were locked in a vault which will not be opened until Monday since the only officers who know the combination are off duty until then...
...Trust had decided was too waterlogged to build on. The result: the Chase Manhattan Plaza, where lower Manhattan's first good-looking new building in half a century sits in the midst of a spacious, tree-studded terrazzo terrace. The new Chase headquarters has the nation's biggest bank vault in the biggest underground banking area, the biggest automatic check-sorting center, the biggest air-conditioning unit. As a visible gesture in public relations, the building has done more than anything else to proclaim that Chase Manhattan is big, bold and forward-looking. And, says Chemical Bank's Chairman Helm...