Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workmen peered closer, the horror got worse. Most rooms, it turned out, had to have new ceilings. Ornate 18th century cornices needed tedious repair and cleaning-with 40 coats of paint removed from some. Behind the paneling a two-inch-wide crack was found spreading through the brickwork...
...site of the dormitories--beyond Dunster House on Memorial Drive--workmen were busy yesterday adding the next-to-final touches to apartments scheduled to open in January. Antiseptic white paint was being applied to the walls, and shutters were being painted fire-engine...
...horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed so far), and last month a Russian-made Egyptian Ilyushin jet bomber attacking Najran inside Saudi Arabia nearly scored a direct hit on a U.N. platoon. Getting into the act, the Russians have sent in at least 900 workmen and technicians, who are constructing a new jet airport north of San'a. Recently, the Russians threw an inquiring U.N. inspector off the premises when he approached the airport to conduct a routine inspection. Apart from such harassment, the U.N. teams found it downright dangerous to travel around...
Last spring, hope returned. Lincoln Center's directors-tireless boasters before the hall was built-confessed that acoustical scientists had confirmed the findings of Schonberg's ear: the hall lacked bass, was haunted by echoes, needed a more equal diffusion of sound. Workmen arrived in June to raise and tilt the 136 acoustical "clouds" suspended from the ceiling, fill in most of the space between them, and build a reflecting musical shell behind the stage...
...developed first, refused to let his subordinates mention G.M.'s name. The decline of his company and of the whole U.S. economy also stiffened his opposition to labor unions. While the daring Henry Ford of 1915 had made history's broadest advance in wages by doubling his workmen's pay to $5 a day, the Ford of 1933 was determined never to recognize any union, thundering "I have never bargained with my men. I have always bargained for them...