Word: cl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bloody pulp. Then they knotted a tie around his neck and dragged him six blocks. All afternoon his body lay in the gutter before the Presidential Palace while the rain water made little whirlpools around his bare heels. Gaitán had been picked up and carried to the Clínica Central...
...Cl'nton, Iowa
...Cl O4-a colorless, fuming, oily liquid...
Last week, in her chilly but elegant Paris apartment, Cléo, past 70, looked about 40. Her hair was still brown and luxuriant, parted demurely in the middle as it was in the great exotic days. She had no wrinkles on her face or hands-only her once incomparable neck was a somewhat ravaged column. She was just back in Paris from the provinces, where, like Gertrude Stein, she had sat out World...
Paris, which still admires Mistinguett's ancient legs, still admired Cléo's ancient beauty. But the world had become shabby. "The opera," she said, "isn't what it used to be. In the old days around 1900 the grand staircase and the lobby used to be a show in itself. Nowadays people go to the opera in their working clothes, and I am afraid that pretty soon they will go in their overalls...