Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord's Prayer, engraved in the space of a needle's eye, a necklace made of human fingers, and a pair of Thomas Jefferson's leather britches. Civil War General Phil Sheridan's horse, Winchester, was stuffed and put on show along with an array of First Lady manikins decked out in their own clothes, and the U.S. flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes that Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light over Fort McHenry...
Thanks to Beni Montresor, a sumptuous array of Oriental costumes dazzles the eye in scene after scene until the final mourning conclave at Kukachin's catafalque, where all are imposingly clothed in a uniform white (for white rather than black is the funeral color in China...
...Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny, it had to decide on liability, and on that question the musicians were...
...switched from side to side to give directional control. They get their kerosene and liquid oxygen fuel through flexible tubing, from nine tanks interconnected so that if one engine fails, the others will use its share of fuel and burn longer. Backing up the engines is an incredible array of pumps, valves, gas generators, high-pressure tanks and cables. Saturn SA-5 is as complicated as a crewless ocean liner operated by flash-quick automatons...
Seldom has a scholar assembled such an impressive array of quotations in which American dignitaries say the "wrong things"--or used the quotations so effectively. Shapiro quotes a statement by Senators Ellender of Louisiana and Eastland of Mississippi that "Latin America needs . . . more dictators like Trujillo." Similarly, during the 1962 Cuban crisis a Congressman declared that "for a good many years down in Latin America, on forty different occasions, American armed forces . . . moved into countries south of the border. . . . But lately we have adopted this mamby-pamby policy of attempting to turn to Latin American countries, to ask their permission...