Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having survived 33 appeals for confidence and nearly 16 months in office, Premier Guy Mollet trod his way to the end last week with a certain nonchalance. "No regrets," he told one of his executioners, "now I can take a rest. They can nail me up on the wall like a trophy, but I won't be used as a doormat." In his conduct of the war in Algeria the militancy of Mollet's patriotism had offended the left, and now that the war bill had to be paid the right was appalled by his Socialism...
...advanced on the newsmen chanting: "Throw 'em out!" A flying wedge of police separated the reporters from the mob. At another end of the building, chief Journal Photographer Eric Groething, 32, raised his camera over his head and warned four angry men who had backed him against a wall: "The first guy that touches me-I'll break his head." In all, eight Journal reporters and three photographers were attacked or threatened...
...director, Dr. G. Van der Wai, an unabashed enthusiast for things made in the U.S.A., turned naturally to the U.S. for an architect. Breuer responded with a clear, simple idea: "Essentially a department store is a big, empty box built around a central circulation core, with the walls closed to provide ample storage." In a move away from glass, he sheathed the box in travertine, employing hexagonal forms to give the façade the overall pattern of a honeycomb, set in slit windows (Rotterdam shoppers like to check materials in the sunlight). Here and there he opened...
...leases and sells. Stockholders rushed .to snap up the new issue. Those who did not subscribe sold their rights for an average $8.50 each. Thus, for about $85, brokers could get the ten rights needed to buy one new share at $220. Many of these rights were bought by Wall Street's Morgan Stanley & Co., manager of the 255-firm investment syndicate underwriting the issue. Using the rights, Morgan Stanley picked up a block of new stock, put it on the open market; it was promptly oversubscribed...
...Bell Telephone Co.. stated that in painting an office baseboard he "commenced at the southwest corner, painting in a northerly direction to the northwest corner, then easterly to the northeast corner, then southerly to the southeast corner, and then commenced painting in a westerly direction along the south wall toward the point of beginning," where he bumped into a telephone booth placed against the wall while he was at work and was struck on the head by a panel...