Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the South in recent years has come a corolla of gifted young novelists. Latest to adorn this company is Heather Ross Miller, 25, from North Carolina's Uwharrie River Country, where her first novel is laid. Heroine Anna Marie is obsessed by the memory of "Paw-Paw," her grandfather, "a stingy old man with a soul of tempered steel." When she is scarcely ten years old, Anna Marie stumbles upon "dirty old Paw-Paw" making love to his second wife. Later she watches from a hiding place when the half-crazed old man murders his wife and Anna...
Politically, however, both men cannot match Humphrey. It seems silly that now a Catholic qua Catholic must adorn a national ticket. Besides, Kennedy's electoral strength only duplicates Johnson's and Bobby would hurt him elsewhere. McNamara, never having held an elected office, has demonstrated no political ability, and his analytical mind and relance on expertise seem suited to a purely administrative role rather than a more political one in which success is measured by the ability to conciliate and compromise...
WORLD'S FAIR ARTISTS-Parsons, 24 West 57th. Sculpture and paintings of ten U.S. artists whose murals adorn the exterior of the New York State Pavilion: Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein, Chamberlain, Kelly, Liberman, Indiana, Warhol, Rosenquist, Agostini, Mallary. Through...
...well. For the privileged few with $3,500 Holland & Holland rifles and fat letters of credit, Africa is still the place for those snarling big cats and tawny skins to adorn a bare den wall. But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door...
...Court handed down a decision of such broad impact that it overturned unfair-competition doctrines in all 50 states and set a precedent that will affect U.S. industry for years to come. The subject of the dispute was a pole lamp, one of those floor-to-ceiling devices that adorn the modern home...