Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks continued behind a wall of privacy calculated to give the participants a chance to thresh out their problems without distractions. At least once a day, Ike's deadpanned Press Secretary Jim Hagerty and Macmillan's ebullient Pressman Peter Hope briefed newsmen at hectic conferences held in a Gettysburg gymnasium 25 miles away from Camp David. Reporters generally had to follow Hagerty and Hope to their hotel rooms for private briefings on what the other briefings had actually been about. Then they returned to the gymnasium for still more clarifying explanations-from each other. But gradually, despite...
...Jesus said: The kingdom of the Father is like a man who wanted to kill an important person; he drew his sword in his house, he pierced it through the wall to see if his hand would be steady; then he killed the important person...
Buried Here. In one place, on the so-called "Red Wall" running north and south in the excavations and dating to about 160 A.D., Dr. Guarducci sees something still more significant. Under the Greek letters for P, E, T and R are some letters that could be an abbreviation of the Greek word enesti. Taken together, the letters would mean "Peter is buried here...
...four days.) A great many of the shows have shoddy plots, ludicrous situations. They are "shot from the hip," as one director puts it, in three days or less, "take what you get." Studio filmed for the most part, they are ironically known in the trade as "four-wall westerns-as big as all indoors." It hardly seems the sort of climate in which creativity could flourish and the legend grow...
...with the Old. Despite its frenzied week, the AmEx (the New York Curb Exchange until 1953) has mellowed since its raucous youth. From its founding, around 1850, until 1921, the exchange operated outdoors, as a noisy swarm of brokers and traders crowded Wall, Broad and Hanover Streets from 8 a.m. to sunset, in fair weather and foul. Because trading was done by flashing secret hand signals, whistling and shouting, the marks of a star broker were leathery lungs, a weatherproof body, and a canny ability to decode competitors' signals...