Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitterness left over from his Navy experience continued to fester. Friends reported that he became a different person. The walls of his apartment in New Orleans were decorated with revolutionary slogans such as MY DEATH LIES IN THE BLOODY DEATH OF RACIST PIGS and POLITICAL POWER COMES FROM THE BARREL...
Seen from outside, Kimbell Art Museum looks like a group of barrel vaults running horizontally across the flat terrain of Fort Worth. Five of the vaults are closed at the ends to form galleries, offices and storage space; their roofs, sheathed unexpectedly in lead, glisten like old pewter in the sun. The sixth is open, a portico opening generously toward the street (below, opposite). Inside the museum, this conversation of silvery tones resumes as the sun spills through a long slit in the roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung...
...questionable move because manpower training needs more central coordination, not less. The attempt was defeated in Congress, where manpower training has strong support-but for the wrong reason. Because the programs funnel money into many congressional districts, Congressmen tend to look on them as a new variety of pork barrel and vote for each other's favorite programs...
...Broach a barrel of oysters, call for sack-be merry, mighty merry! To read Samuel Pepys again in this new edition is a celebration...
...Gallo lock, stock and wine barrel are the brothers whose names are signed on many Gallo bottles...