Word: wrought
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Most of the photography in Townships doesn't contradict my picture. There are eleven photographs of people who look over retirement age; kids, who fit into my hazy, Hollywood-wrought vision; plain white Indiana farm houses and general stores with old "Drink Coca-Cola" signs. The pictures show 35-cent vanilla ice cream, and movie seats that cost one dollar--at all times. All the photographs are in black and white...
...people of ancient Greece and Rome, the Celtic world B.C. was narrow and barbaric. Actually it reached from the British Isles to Asia Minor and had a highly developed civilization -- as shown by finely wrought objects in bronze, silver and glass...
...what hath Harvard PR and West German millions wrought? The noble two-story Naumburg Room in the Fogg has been closed to the public, to be filled with offices and filing cabinets. The magnificent old Germanic Museum on Kirkland Street provides a sumptuous abode for the Center for European Studies, air-conditioned, we presume...
ANOTHER HARMFUL EFFECT of unions occurs because of their "democratization" of an industry's workforce. The wage gap between skilled and less skilled union workers tends to decrease, penalizing the more productive and ambitious workers. This phenomenon wrought havoc on the Swedish economy, making any advanced training or higher education virtually useless...
...same time, what Columbus actually wrought by bringing Europe into the Americas is being assessed with increased historical sophistication. Two worlds collided nearly 500 years ago, and none of the fallout from that impact now seems as simple as it was once portrayed. Textbooks on American history once began with Columbus' arrival, as if nothing that had happened before bore mentioning. Those careful enough to note that the explorer found people already living where he touched down did not go on to say very much about them...