Word: octagonal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...homes for consideration. Among the top contenders: Tregaron, the late Joseph E. Davies' 7½-acre wooded estate (the setting for the ballroom-party scene in the movie Advise and Consent); Dumbarton Oaks, a Georgetown estate where the conference that hatched the United Nations was held; Octagon House, a Georgian-style Washington landmark on New York Avenue; Hitt House, the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization; and Bonnie Brae, a barnlike Tudor house of fieldstone and brick...
...need for extra caution caused by icy or rocky slopes is indicated by a red diamond and a closed slope is heralded by an orange octagon...
...need for extra caution caused by icy or rocky slopes is indicated by a red diamond and a closed slope is heralded by an orange octagon...
...Jordanian Jerusalem, was built around the rock from which Mohammed supposedly rode to heaven on horseback in 632 A.D. The architecture was plain: a dome, 72 ft. in diameter, raised on a colonnaded drum to a peak of 116 ft. and set in the center of an octagon. But the decoration was splendid: quartered-marble paneling and glass mosaics on gold backgrounds...
...legs to stick out of." Nothing quite so simple swivels heads in the streets; nor is the straight shift likely to turn strong men helpless after one swift glance. But to the thousands of American women who are just not quite ready yet for chartreuse face powder or the octagon look, the shift is a welcome and comfortable trend to latch...