Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began-with a win that changed her life. It was in 1947 when she was walking to work in Kenton, Ohio, a new graduate of a Lima, Ohio, beauty school. She was munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment to open her own salon...
...incident turned the tense mood of Salisbury uglier than ever. Middle-aged businessmen talked of taking up arms. A group of whites in a mixed Salisbury bar, fingering the triggers of rifles, ordered blacks who sat beside them to get out. The blacks did not tarry. Rumors circulated that two young whites, after hearing of the massacre, stopped their car and shot the first black man they saw. In Parliament, a backbencher called for martial law and general mobilization, and blustered that Africa was about to see "its first race of really angry white men." Almost certainly there would...
Some of the answers can be found over a beer at the bar around the block from the Charles Playhouse. Field work in any research is essential, but the playhouses of Boston's theater district can do no more than mimic the action going on outside their doors...
Fear is not the only reason. Not wanting to "get involved" makes potential witnesses behave like the three monkeys who hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. "With a shooting in a bar." says one Detroit law officer, "you'll have 30 people tell you they were in the John at the same time." However un-Samaritan it may seem, the unwillingness of witnesses to go to court is understandable. Witness waiting rooms are grim, if they exist, and court procedures can be exasperating. Getting cross-examined by a zealous defense lawyer is often a fearful...
...himself conducted, is equally witty. Hinting at Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Previn underlines Stoppard's words and adds his own notes of satire. When Alexander, for instance, says that confinement will at least allow him time to read War and Peace, the orchestra mocks him with a rousing bar from Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. When the colonel in charge of the hospital finally makes his entrance, he is preceded by a vulgar outburst from the organ...