Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the young couple spent their last unmarried weekend at the Royal Lodge in Windsor with the Queen and Prince Philip, workmen completed the 60-foot arch of roses through which the procession will pass. The 2,500 troops who will line the march rehearsed their duties and boned up on the eleven pages of orders of the day. Just opposite Westminster Abbey rose tier on tier of seats for those willing to pay $15 to $75 for a closeup view. An official tersely admitted that, so far, there is "nothing like a rush" to buy, and advertisements have been...
That was in 1957. Three years later there was still no church, and the stalling Communist authorities began talking vaguely of building-material shortages and the need for schools. Last week housewives saw city workmen drive up to the site, obviously intending to remove the cross. Rushing into the street, the women chanted hymns and waved placards demanding "Freedom of Religion.'' Late in the afternoon they were joined by their husbands, coming off the day shift. By the time the police arrived, a threatening mob of some 3,000 had sealed off the block. The cops used tear...
Thunder's curtain rose on a stageful of workmen still putting the scenery in place. A man in the balcony shouted, "Don't come home too late tonight!" Through a loudspeaker a voice called, "Monsieur Bejart is wanted at the concierge's!" When things quieted down, Puck emerged from a wicker basket, wearing a pair of baby-blue wings, and three saucy minxes (Titania, Hermia. Helena) bumped and ground their way across the stage. In Sonnet for Sister Kate, an untamed shrew in an orange wig and a southof-the-navel decollete shimmied front and center, then...
...call for mechanical help went out to nonunion papers throughout the U.S., and the jointly published paper soon was limping along with 72 experienced hands recruited from as far away as Florida. As the months wore on, the imported work force was gradually replaced by 350 unskilled workmen hired locally and trained...
...fleets of bulldozers and an army of sweating workmen chew at midtown Caracas to connect bending ribbons of concrete into a superhighway cloverleaf of supreme complexity. Even before sidewalks are in and the lawn is seeded, self-service elevators begin humming in the flat-fronted apartment buildings that shoot up steadily at the eastern end of the city's valley. On the slopes to the north and south, concrete flows into forms to make walls, patios, retaining walls and swimming pools for low, clean-lined mansions that can cost as much as $3,000,000. Overnight, packing-case houses...