Word: broom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's voting, which allotted seats on the basis of party slate showings rather than to individual candidates, included Armored Force General Shlomo Lahat and outspoken Housewife Shulamit Aloni. Lahat campaigned for mayor of Tel Aviv as though he were waging a military campaign. "Give me a broom and I will sweep this city clean" was his slogan. In a country where sizable numbers of nonpracticing Jews apparently resent the religious laws that apply to everybody, Aloni appeared to have gained at least two seats in the Knesset for her small civil rights party, whose platform called...
Humble Burlap. For one tapestry, Miró picked up a metal stencil for the letter G and splashed it on upside down in brown against bright yellow canvas. Then he hung the stencil itself on the fabric-also upside down. A handy whisk broom was slapped onto another tapestry. Working on a third, Miró's eye lit upon an empty paint bucket; he rammed it into the composition then, as an afterthought, added a fake spill of paint made of canvas. He proposed scorching certain areas to darken the hemp, and soon the studio flared with gouts...
...general in 1957-59 and 1963-68. But he never lost his love of the land and his country directness. A favorite expression when someone is talking nonsense: "He ain't wrapped too tight." Various inept politicians, Saxbe scoffs, "couldn't run a chicken downstairs with a broom...
Well, not exactly. The tapes are stored in several "security areas" in the White House basement and the Executive Office Building next door. The central repository is a converted broom closet in the E.O.B. basement, a high-ceilinged niche that was furnished with fireproofing material and an iron gate before the first tapes were stored there in 1971. These rooms are under heavy lock and key, so the Secret Service needs only a minimal staff to guard them...
...raped. A weekend was assigned and the girl was assured of no more than that someone would show up sometime during the weekend to rape her. And sure enough, Saturday morning as she was puttering around her apartment, the birthdayboy rapist snuck in and hid himself in the broom closet. When she eventually came out to the kitchen to make her lunch, he leaped out of the closet and raped her. She was terrified, he was unstoppable, and both were quite pleased when it was finished. They parted cordially and never saw each other again...