Word: wanes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victorian Finishes. No matter how questionable its content, much of the new sculpture is painstakingly crafted. The practitioners of junkyard assemblages have dwindled. Brutalism for its shock effect is on the wane. A new trend is the number of works that are neatly packaged in boxes, which Sir Herbert Read recently thought should be labeled "furniture" rather than "sculpture." Random objects glitter behind glass in the work of Joseph Cornell and Mary Bauermeister; even Louise Nevelson's newest darkling orts of woodwork are kept as purely as blackfish in glass bowls...
...been three weeks now that the Bratwurst's tasted funny; that the Roast Beef Special's been maybe a little heavy on the Russian. That compulsion to stuff our faces has been on the wane with Elsie's heart. She's back behind the counter now. We think we'll order a nice fat Fresser's Dream...
...Barry mostly because they figure he might just as well be the Republican sacrifice in a Democratic year. If they were convinced that another candidate might actually win the presidency and carry hundreds of other Republicans into office with him, their loyalty to Barry almost certainly would waver and wane. It is up to Bill Scranton to convince these delegates that he is just the fellow to whip Lyndon...
Tennis fortunes wax and wane-and Australia's mostly wax, while the U.S.'s mostly wane. The Aussies have won the Davis Cup in eleven of the past 13 years; the U.S. has not even reached the Challenge Round since 1959. But last week U.S. fortunes took a distinct turn for the better. The U.S. team had already beaten Mexico and Britain handily. Now it needed only to get past India in the interzone finals to challenge Australia...
Homer succeeded Grace to the top jobs-first as president in 1945, then as chief executive in 1957. Precise and analytical, he surprised many in the industry by proving to be a forceful chief. Sensing that shipbuilding was on the wane, the old sailor cut back Bethlehem's stake in ships, and late last year initiated a threeyear, $750 million improvement program concentrating in other areas. Rising behind the Indiana dunes near Chicago is a $275 million finishing plant that will give Bethlehem, which has long been the strongest supplier in the East, a major hold in the Midwest...