Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Lindsay's election as Mayor of New York will subject us to more of the endless column-inches of chatter and adulation that greet the emergence of any possible Republican Presidential candidate. In Mr. Lindsay's case, the speculation will be more idle than usual, for New York's 103rd Mayor seems all too likely to do just what he has promised--spend the next four years in the Gracie Mansion...
...Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister (finned, inch-long small shot), the tank guns blazed away point-blank at the jungle, mowing the brush to stubble as if a huge rotary mower had cut a 40-yd. swath on each side of the road. Dozens of shredded enemy bodies-arms, legs, heads, viscera-were plastered against...
...Pioneer Column. Rhodes got to him in 1888. In return for a promise to keep all other white marauders out of Zambesia, the King affixed his official elephant seal to a document awarding Rhodes's British South Africa Co. the right to dig for gold. Rhodes rushed off to London, passed off the agreement as authority to take possession of the land, and wangled a charter to administer it in the name of the Crown...
...first expedition, Rhodes hired an army of 500 whites for the British South Africa Co.'s uniformed "police," 200 trusty blacks for servants. The heart of the column, however, was 200 hardy settlers, hand-picked to form a balanced community of professional skills and promised 15 gold claims and 3,000 acres of farmland apiece. By 1890, all was ready. Crossing the Limpopo, the pioneer
Gross, Overcooked, Smoky. His lightly edited copy, which he clicks off in a half-hour per column, is primarily for those who make haute cuisine a hobby. The weekly thumbnail sketches he does on three restaurants are a guide for everyone who likes to eat well when they are out on the town. To keep up to date, Claiborne often tries two different places a day. He awards up to four stars, does not even deign to write about a restaurant "if there is more than 50% wrong with...