Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands is still dotted with some of the world's dourest Calvinist communities. Among its grimmest is the former islet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That was before Urk ceased to be an island...
...point, a female secretary yelled toward the TV screen: "That's a lie!" The President's wife retreated, red-eyed, to her bedroom. Finally, Urrutia rose, went into a small office, wrote out his resignation, sent it to the television studio, turned his head to the wall and sobbed. All that he asked in the note was an armed guard to see him and his wife and three children through the mob to the home of his brother-in-law. As the resignation was read over the air, Castro deadpanned: "Let him go if he wants to, like...
...Black Thursday, 1929, the day the stock market collapsed, Wall Street was a scene of chaos, and many a suddenly paupered stockholder felt that the end of the world had come. One among them had a different thought; he dashed off to a friend's studio to make a lithograph of the disastrous scene: the great, gloomy canyon, the dashing crowds and distraught faces. That lithograph is now in the Philadelphia Museum, and other pictures by James N. Rosenberg hang in no fewer than 20 U.S. museums. Yet Rosenberg has always remained an amateur in spirit. He paints...
...hair etched with grey, Blough had not only devised the industry's new policy but would have the most say in whatever settlement the steel industry would make. He is no rough-and-tumble, up-from-the-mill steelman but a lawyer who got into steel via a Wall Street firm, thoroughly learned the business by hard-slogging homework...
...studying the behavior of ores to make the most effective use of raw materials, working on special steels needed in rocketry and nuclear weapons, and turning out such new consumer products as aluminum-coated steel sheets for the automobile industry, vinyl-covered sheets in many colors for TV cabinets, wall panels, doors...