Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cabinet for weeks have been promising tough, bold, imaginative action. Home Secretary Rab Butler ringingly proclaimed that the government would "lead the nation in calling for moral values to emerge instead of materialistic appetites." Accused of excessive complacency, Harold Macmillan himself loftily intoned: "When you hear the announcement, you wall not think we have been complacent." In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd portentously lectured that "none of us must be bound by old dogmas...
Built on a saddle between two peaks, Machu Picchu is surrounded by a granite wall, can be entered only by one main gate. Inside is a maze of a thousand ruined houses, temples, palaces, and staircases, all hewn from white granite and dominated by a great granite sundial. In Quechua, language of the sun-worshipping Incas and their present-day descendants, the dial was known as Intihuatana-hitching post...
...street is a long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...
Unlike two other famous Manhattan business streets. Madison Avenue and Wall Street, West 47th is virtually a closed corporation-except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business...
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