Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short years he had it bubbling money again, then went wandering as an international banker and economic troubleshooter. He spent a year (1933-34) in Peking as financial adviser to the Chinese government, raised money to repair China's vast, decrepit railroad system. He opened a Wall Street brokerage house, made a fortune and lost it in the 1929 crash. The Polish government called him in to plan a currency reform it never carried out. The Swedish government appointed Monnet one of the liquidators of the complex, bankrupt Kreuger match empire...
...Opera had suitable quarters for the first time since the end of the war, West Berliners were less than ecstatic about Architect Fritz Bornemann's barren modern design. The opera's enormous, slablike stone fagade, 660 ft. long and 126 ft. high, was quickly dubbed the "Wailing Wall...
...despite their criticism, Berliners were grateful that the opera was there, mindful that a mere three miles to the east, near the Brandenburg Gate, grim East German Volkspolizei stood guard over a smaller but far less attractive "Wailing Wall"-the eight-foot barrier of concrete and barbed wire that has turned West Berlin into a ghetto of freedom...
Monumental Tantrums. The news that their city was back in the series after 21 years of frustration sent Cincinnati citizens into a nightlong riot. By morning, 27 had been arrested on charges ranging from receiving stolen property (a telephone ripped off a cafe wall) to disorderly conduct. But the man who had engineered the excuse for all the excitement had no time to relax. Fred Hutchinson remained the glowering dugout pacer who kept the Reds going all summer long...
...that might have been sculpted by Modigliani. He has been known to terrify rookie ballplayers merely by staring at them, and his temper tantrums are monumental: enraged by the loss of a close game, he has attacked the dugout watercooler, ripped his uniform to shreds, and pounded a concrete wall until his knuckles were bruised and bleeding. When Hutchinson was pitching for Detroit, recalls Yankee Yogi Berra, "I could always tell how he had done when we followed the Tigers into a town. If we got stools in the dressing room. Hutch had won. If we got kindling...