Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium, to show him where all the wide open space...
...citizen roles. Assigned by Hearst to an anti-rackets crusade in 1933, Runyon led off with the charge that the Administration of President Harding was "the most brazen display of racketeering in our times." His story went on to tick off other notable racketeers-"after the bankers come the Wall Streeters"-before arriving at Al Capone, who was charitably described as "a small-timer." Biographer Hoyt finds it strange that Runyon's dark side went so unrecognized, since Runyon himself gave it such a lifelong promenade. "By saying something with a half-boob air," Runyon once wrote of himself...
Sometimes a caulobacter attaches the end of its stalk to the body wall of a bacterium of another species and feeds by sucking out the victim's protoplasm...
Pierre Bonnard called himself "the last impressionist," but in the throes of creation he was more like the first action painter. He would tack a huge canvas on a wall and, striding back and forth, begin jabbing spots of paint in a dozen places. After days of vigorous work, a nude emerged here, a still life there. Then he cut the paintings apart, stretched them into tambourines of jin gling color...
...other hand, family firms have some congenital weaknesses, and Wall Street has tended to play these up in its constant importuning of such businesses to go public. Among them: the problem of signing up and holding able executives who know that the sweetest plum is often reserved for the boss's son. Perhaps the worst fate that can befall a family-owned company is to have at its head a grandpa who thinks that the old ways are still the best...