Word: candelabra
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...Brandt walks slowly to the simple granite slab that memorializes the 500,000 Jews from the city's ghetto who were massacred by the Germans during World War II. For a moment he stands with bowed head, enveloped in silence except for the soft hiss of two gas-fed candelabra. Then, as if to atone for Germany's sins against its neighbors, Brandt falls to his knees. "No people," as Willy Brandt has said, "can escape from their history...
...complete, but it appears that this -phe-. nomena phenomenon occurs most often nowadays within the strata stratum of people concerned with newspapers, magazines, television and radio-in a word, media. Trouble is, the media 4s are not singular; 4t-4s-they are plural, as 4s-are candelabra. According to this criteria criterion, -the first thing on the agendum agenda should be to call a halt to all of -this-these errata...
...performed for the occasion. The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra. The state dinner for the astronauts was held the farthest ever afield from Washington; it was the costliest (about $50,000) and the biggest of all time (1,440 guests, v. the 140 normally accommodated in the White House State Dining Room...
...LIBERACE SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The Candelabra Kid lights up the first show of his summer series with Guest Stars Jack Benny, the Bachelors, Rolf Harris and Susan Maughan...
...Brazil, than she was caught in a tangle of traffic. Then, in the middle of a reception at the Palace of Las Princessas, the lights blew and pitched the whole place into darkness. But Queen Elizabeth II, poised as always, went right on receiving guests while servants held glowing candelabra behind her. It was the first visit ever to South America by a reigning British monarch, and the Queen plans ten days in Brazil, another seven in Chile before returning home. Officially, she is returning a state visit to Britain three years ago by Chile's President Eduardo Frei...