Word: lining
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tired and wanted to go home. But the U.S. let it be known that U.S. Ambassador Whiting Willauer's freezer was stocked with food for several weeks and that Secretary of State Herter was prepared to stay and consult as long as necessary. Little by little the soft-line advocates were stiffened by orders from home or by becoming convinced in Costa Rica that failure to act would do irreparable damage to the inter-American system. At last only Venezuela's Arcaya was left leading the crumbling opposition to the firm resolutions submitted by Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay...
Music-Hall Act. Testifying before the House Agriculture Committee, U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon coolly laid the new anti-Trujillo U.S. policy on the line: "Nothing would do more to promote Communism in Latin America than for the U.S. to support a dictator who, like Trujillo, has been guilty of torturing prisoners and trampling on human rights." On the Senate floor, two senatorial admirers of Trujillo-Allen Ellender of Louisiana and James Eastland of Mississippi-put on a music-hall act in support of their favorite dictator. Said Ellender, chairman of the powerful Senate Agricultural Committee...
Sculptor Crawford endowed his Armed Liberty with every cliche available-an olive branch, a wreath of wheat and laurel, the customary sword and shield. "These emblems are such.'' said he confidently, "as the mass of our people will easily understand." But somewhere along the line the olive branch was dropped, and for the head wreath Crawford substituted a liberty cap in a tribute to the freeing of the Phrygian slaves in ancient times. This was too much for Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. As a result, part of an eagle with a lot of feathers was scrunched...
...first houses proved beyond a doubt that he was indeed the devoted disciple of Mies van der Rohe. But for all their austerity of line, there was a special elegance that was Johnson's own. His famous private houses, like the Rockefeller guest house in Manhattan and his own glass house in New Canaan, Conn., were graced with pavilions, pools and inner courts. Simplicity and luxury went together, and the houses lent themselves to both casualness and ceremony...
Like Cole Porter, he could dip into a source play, borrow a line and spin a lyric. In Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, the heroine wonders aloud what it would be like "if I loved you," then pauses to reflect silently. Adapting the play as Carousel, Hammerstein and Rodgers filled the pause with unadorned grace: If I loved...