Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildings were still there, still painted cream and green, and pine trees still cover much of the campus. But new buildings accommodate a student body that has more than tripled in size. More than 50 of the students and many of the faculty and staff are Filipinos, a radical departure from the past. Once a week, as required by national law, the entire student body Lines up to witness the raising of the Philippine flag and to sing in Tagalog the national anthem, Pambansang Awit...
...campaign, when Duarte supporters called their opponents ARENAZIS and D'Aubuisson campaign workers accused the Christian Democratic leader of being a Communist who would hand the country over to the guerrillas, election day was part festival, part family outing. As street vendors hawked papusas (stuffed corncakes) and ice cream near polling stations, uniformed soldiers casually stood by. Voters chatted, joked and waited pa1tiently in line for hours to cast their votes under the watchful" gaze of vigilantes (poll watchers) decked out in the red-white-and-blue colors of ARENA or the dark green of the Christian Democrats. Election...
...flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef for the consomme, 440 lbs. of prawns, scallops, Mandarin fish and turbot for the seafood mousse appetizer, 132 lbs. of hearts of palm for the "panda" salad. For dessert: a praline ice cream dish made with 22 lbs. of almonds, 600 eggs, 36 quarts of cream and three bottles of Grand Marnier. Three types of vintage California wines were selected by Nancy Reagan...
...will reside in a renovated villa, complete with indoor garden and an imposing replica of a Ming dynasty dragon bed with a pillared canopy. The Americans will give their own spread: 600 guests at the Great Wall Hotel for roast tom turkey, accompanied by seafood mousse and praline ice cream. About 220 lbs. of frozen poultry were flown to Peking two weeks ago, but the Reagans will personally bring the wine (390 bottles of California's finest reds, whites and champagnes...
...cream-colored Alfa-Romeo careered toward the assembled dignitaries as a security man, in a half-crouch, squeezed off shots from his .357 magnum. There were screams. Onlookers scattered. The car slued into a line of coffins, knocking one over, and finally rolled to a halt, after coming within ten feet of French Defense Minister Charles Hernu. The incident last week climaxed an otherwise solemn military funeral at the Toulouse-Francazal airbase for the nine French paratroopers killed in Chad. The grieving brother of one of the dead soldiers had tried to run down the Minister...