Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advance their lines by digging new trenches, thus prompting the Greeks to retaliate with new earthworks of their own, bringing both sides dangerously close together. Last January, heavy rains caused the collapse of part of Nicosia's 16th century battlements, exposing a 150-ft. tunnel built inside the wall that would have given the Turkish Cypriots a commanding position for firing across the so-called Green Line that divides Turks from Greeks...
...hide either their present discouragement or their future plans. At Russia's spaceport near Baikonur, Kazakhstan, all operations are covered with cautious secrecy; even newsmen rarely get near the place. Space shots are never announced until they are aloft and functioning well. Failures are muffled behind a wall of security. The Cape, by contrast, is open, frank and plainly visible...
Hashim, now a little slower than his nephew, but no less a shotmaker, varied the pace to hold Mohibulla back. He mixed drives and drops with his pet shot--a volley nick that just rools off the side wall...
Clark's office matches his temperament. The bulletin boards on the wall are plastered congratulatory telegrams from across country. "GOD IS WITH YOU IN THE BATTLE AGAINST COMMUNIST SPIRED YANKEE AGITATORS," one Another datelined New Hampshire that Clark subject King to a "THOROUGH PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION." A from an Air Force sergeant in Colorado, "THANK YOU FOR YOUR MANLINE AND YOUR MANKINDLINESS...
...everything from Renaissance Madonnas to abstract collages, as established painters to perfect. Dutch-born Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who haunted the Met as a young man, says: "The greatest thrill of my life is to walk from the Rembrandt rooms and find my Easter Monday hanging on the wall...