Word: relishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After their marriage a year later, Owings bought the 55-acre site. Says Owings: "It was six hundred feet long, six hundred feet high and six feet wide," and the statement was only a slight exaggeration. What gave special relish to the job for Nat Owings was that in 32 years of designing, including work on such large-scale projects as Oak Ridge, Tenn., Moroccan airbases, and Crown Zellerbach's new building in San Francisco (TIME, Sept. 7), he had never built a house...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
Trading Notes. Never before had a country off U.S. shores been as unfriendly as Louisiana-sized Cuba, which engaged the U.S. in full-scale diplomatic debate, taking obvious relish in every word. Off the presses of the Cuban Ministry of State rolled a 14-page color pamphlet, loaded with "atrocity" pictures and designed to prove that the U.S. was responsible for "bombing and strafing" Havana...
John Yovicsin's eleven should relish the role of the underdog. Its two biggest wins of the season were over favored opponents, and its two worst showings were in games in which it was a clear favorite...
...stunning Portrait of a Woman, also done in 1919, depicts with vitality a woman of fashion. The finely tooled detail and Ingresque perceptiveness of Seated Lady contrasts with the vivid elegance of the Portrait. Here, Modigliani's relish for feminine beauty combines perfectly with his love for the controlled line to create a modern "master drawing...