Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Busts of Trujillo adorned every park; plaques proclaiming that "in this house, Trujillo is boss" dangled from the wall of every shop. Along the roadside, signs proclaimed "Thank You, Trujillo," and neon beacons flashed the message "God and Trujillo." No Dominican dared oppose, or even snicker...
...second room the decorations are more elaborate. One wall is painted in the vivid colors of a stage, with tall, narrow side doors standing ajar, and leering comic masks peeking through small windows. Large central openings show gardenlike vistas. On top of the stage are small, blue glass vessels. Perspective and brushwork are so skilled that the scene has startling depth...
...Flexible dishwasher, produced by Ling-Temco Electronics, designed to fit into many areas hitherto inaccessible to conventional dishwashers. It can be recessed in a wall, mounted on a wall, placed on top of a counter, below a built-in range or hung as a room divider. Price...
With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver...
Partly as the result of the new market--and perhaps partly to assert the Law School's spiritual independence from Wall Street, the Faculty has adopted a policy of not announcing class standings for other than the first 100 students in a class. Although they will still know the applicants' grades, the big-city firms will no longer be able to rely exclusively on these magic numbers which have become rather meaningless because of the great degree of bunching in the middle of the class...