Word: crystalize
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...Enrico Caruso fled from the hotel with a towel wrapped around his neck and clutching an autographed picture of Teddy Roosevelt), but a new 600-room, $8,000,000 Palace was quickly built. Most notable feature: the Garden Court dining room, with its domed glass ceiling, marble pillars and crystal chandeliers...
...best place to mount it, the planners decided, was 56 feet below the surface of the bay of San Fruttuoso, between Camogli and Portofmo. There the waters were almost crystal-clear, so that the statue would be visible from above. Many a sea faring man had lost his life there - nearby the Genoese lost a bloody naval battle with the Venetians in 1431 and the British frigate Croesus went down...
...Armas (whom he met there for the first time), then brought them together. He hammered home the idea that the good of Guatemala demanded a compromise. The proud colonels began to give ground, but it was 5 o'clock the next morning before they sat down under a crystal chandelier and signed a temporary power-sharing agreement...
...Flaw in the Crystal by Godfrey Smith (Putnam; $3.50) is a brightly written, sprightly little tour de force that is all the more remarkable from a 23-year-old writing his first novel. It is about two young Englishmen involved in London high jinks and international low life. Graham Several, a financial wizard, is the crystal. Roger Meredith, a civil servant, is assigned by the Foreign Office to find the flaw. If there is no flaw in Several's loyalty, he is to be sent abroad on a vital secret mission. Meredith's search leads through the brilliant...
...When Warren finished reading at 1:20 the ruling was crystal clear: the U.S. Supreme Court held that racial segregation in the public schools violates the Constitution. The decision was unanimous...