Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...findings at the capitol of the great Lydian empire during the time of Croesus were made by a team of 30 scholars and students, aided by some 200 workmen. They worked at the vast site in western Turkey which during much of the 3,000 years of its history was the Paris of the ancient world. The directors of the expedition are George M. A. Hanfmann, professor of Fine Arts at Harvard, and A. Henry Detweiler of the Cornell faculty...
...vegetables for his newly finicky customers and grumbles: ''They won't buy German vegetables any more, even when they're cheaper." Looking toward outer space, Britain, France and West Germany are establishing a $200 million project to build a European rocket. Deep beneath the Alps, workmen are blasting an auto tunnel under Mont Blanc; when it is completed next year, Paris and Rome will be 124 miles closer...
...part of the renovation, workmen will tear up the concrete floor in the theatre's main section and install 1500 new two-position, adjustable seats. The seating plan involves 400 fewer chairs than at present, in order to permit more leg room...
While in law school, Goldberg worked part time as a clerk in a Chicago law office. Summers, he signed on as a construction laborer, once stepped on a rusty nail and had to wait out the then manda tory period of a week before he could collect workmen's compensation. He could not afford the loss of pay. "Ever since," he recalls, "I have not been friendly to the idea of waiting periods. Family needs don't wait...
...says Istina Mavet, is to know that things are far, far from what they seem. Workmen apparently digging a ditch are actually digging her grave. Peering into the depths of a mirror, she sees not her image but nothingness. Answering a phone, she hears only the voice she dreads. Even flowers nodding in the wind are not flowers but explosions caused by "sinister collisions of color...