Word: barriere
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Cornelia Wallace, 34, the beautiful second wife of Alabama's Governor George Wallace, likes to drive fast, so fast, in fact, that she recently joked to a nonplussed Dick Cavett, they had to "put a governor on me." She has now approached the sound barrier as a passenger in an F-4 Phantom fighter belonging to the Alabama National Guard. Back on the ground at Montgomery's Dannelly Field, Cornelia announced, "I think we should have more women pilots, and I hope it will not be too long before we have a woman in the space program." Meanwhile...
...buildings from the Wall. Some started tearing out concrete slabs with their bare hands. Others joined them, and soon some 300 men, women and children were at the Wall, screaming their frustration and anger at the hated Grepos. A hole six feet wide was ripped out of the barrier, and several young men prepared to assault the other side. Their impotence was quickly made clear, however, by an East German soldier, who pointedly reloaded his submachine gun and aimed it at their faces. Scattered shouts of "murderers," "criminals" and "swine" changed to a rhythmic chant of rage and frustration. Eventually...
...agent who had planted the mike in the target office had tested the key, so the first barrier would yield. But the lock on the office door was a later model -pin and tumbler-and they would have to make its key on the spot ... "All right," Peter said curtly, "I don't want heroes, just the contents of the safe...
...recent news conference, Conservative Television Commentator William F. Buckley Jr. sonorously explained why he had successfully sued his union, AFTRA, for the right to appear on television even though he chose to quit the labor group. "Paying dues," he asserted, "is a barrier to free speech...
...second barrier is language. Carnies use hundreds of special terms (see box) that help give them a feeling of group solidarity. Frequently they mix these with a special language called Carnie, or ZLatin, which follows-and sometimes ignores-a complex set of rules for disguising the meaning of ordinary English. The word sucker, for instance, may be translated "see-a-zuk kee-a-zer," or simply "see-a-zuker," while carnival becomes...