Word: circusing
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...using cast concrete, sometimes in a giant sandbox. A huge slab relief dominates the playground entrance. Two 8-ft.-tall diamond-shaped fountains gurgle water through faceted gutters, and an 80-ft.-long stucco mural wall borders the childrens' plaza. The principal delight is a circus of 18 cast-stone horsies, mixed with marble dust to sparkle in three colors. They are indestructible mounts for the most tantrumy tot. A final touch is a hulking, 7-ft.-high abstract human figure, a sort of guardian nanny to children romping there...
Certainly it was conceived in a spirit of playfulness, by boys, who wished to liven up a slushy reading period and a pompous election. They planned it to be a circus from the start, and hence the silly picture in the Crimson, the "Hi" instead of serious qualifications, the nota bene, fans, tongue in check editorial, written by one of my heartiest supporters. And this group of people never intended me to "win" in any effective sense, some because they weren't interested in a political fight, others because they felt that radcliffe's independent status, independent Class Marshals...
...does not really expect to reform the world. But it is convinced that publicizing any infraction of the rule of law serves an immediate and practical purpose. The presence and protest of a commission jurist at the 1960 "trial" of deposed Democrats in Turkey transformed that mob-ringed Roman circus overnight into an orderly judicial proceeding. And the glare of the commission's carefully documented study, Spain and the Rule of Law, eventually persuaded once furious Spanish officials to discuss incommunicado detentions and denial of the right to strike...
...down the gangplank of the $300,000 ark made of roughhewn logs. As director, he moved inside the 200-ft.-long, 60-ft.-high ark-one of five to be used in the film-to supervise 200 animals that had been brought down over the Alps from Althoffs Circus and were undergoing their first try at bedding down...
...have said nothing for a year," Councillor Andrew T. Trodden told him, "but, honestly, I don't think you have done anything except paint this place up like a three ring circus." Rudolph again confirmed (it had never been a secret) that he had bought 4000 gallons of paint in 1964 and had already decorated Cambridge's streets with 2500 gallons...