Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than four months in office, Macmillan has wrought a transformation. From the first, he refused to act like a man with his back to the wall. He put the disaster of Suez firmly behind him, and exuded confidence-in himself and in Britain...
...five-story apartment building resting on concrete columns with balcony access for every apartment. Planned to such detail as the radiant-heating system, plumbing and size of bolts needed to fasten parts, it has a special appeal for the penury-plagued Poles. It is completely prefabricated, with every wall, except those for bathrooms, made before installation so that the building's outer shell can be erected before it is even decided how many apartments are needed on the inside. In April the young refugees were informed that their design had won the first prize of 60,000 zlotys...
Whirlwind Hand. When the fierce Chin Tartars ("The Golden Tribes") swept down over the Great Wall, captured the capital Kaifeng and took Sung Emperor Huitsung, along with 3,000 of his court, into captivity in Mongolia, about 6,500 paintings in the imperial collection dating back over 1,000 years were destroyed or dispersed. But the Sung Dynasty held out in the south for another 150 years-long enough to make their new capital. Hangchow, with its willows and delicately arched bridges, one of the most beautiful cities of antiquity...
Ground Rubies & Nutmegs. The national uprising that finally drove the Mongol troops north of the Great Wall and installed a young peasant on the throne as the first Ming Emperor in 1368 rapidly produced an epicurean age of elegance, not unlike that which marked the courts of Europe in the 18th century. The great pottery works of the Sung emperors were revived and expanded. For Emperor Hsuan-te's Dragon Soup Bowl, craftsmen ground rubies to powder to achieve richness of color; court ladies dipped their fingers into exquisite candy dishes for the cardamoms and nutmegs that served...
...months Wall Street has been talking about a "profit squeeze" as if it were an indisputable fact for industry as a whole. Last week, as a flood of first-quarter-earnings reports poured out, the profit squeeze proved to be more fiction than fact. The firms that could not offset rising costs with increased business were far outnumbered by those that showed profits still on the upgrade. The profit squeeze did show up in the sense that earnings often failed to keep pace with the increase in sales. But overall corporate profits for 1957's first quarter were expected...