Word: depotism
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...turn Bay of the Angels into a one-woman show. Puffy, painted, clacking along on spike heels, bouncy blonde curls screaming Miami bleach, she seems to have been blackjacked by destiny in a thousand side-street hotels. If she loses her train fare, she sleeps at the depot. If someone offers to share his room with her, that's all right too. "I'm here with you," she shrugs. "I could be somewhere else-with my husband for instance. I hardly know him. So what's the difference?" Because Moreau lifts such roles to an eminence they...
...husband was found dead and the case came to trial. Whether he was killed in a fair fight, murdered by his dishonored wife, or done in by his own hand, depends on which of the protagonists' testimonies can be believed. One of the trio gathered at the depot is a thieving old prospector (Howard Da Silva), who finally admits that he was an eyewitness to the crime but claims that none of the stories told at the trial were wholly true...
...shipload of fresh troops and guns into the southern port of Limassol. Numbering more than 3,000 so far, they were quickly transported to camps of the Greek Cypriot national guard in the Troodos Mountains and elsewhere. Part of a Nicosia mental hospital is being used as a storage depot for newly arrived Greek arms and ammunition; four batteries of field artillery, quantities of light antiaircraft guns, antitank weapons and armored cars have recently turned up at a Greek encampment at Lefkoniko, near Famagusta...
...death six women and five children, wounded 21 other women. Then the Reds mutilated several of the bodies, carving out the victims' hearts and spleens. The government retaliated with less savage successes of its own. Three hundred miles north of Saigon, Rangers overran a Viet Cong ordnance depot, capturing 166 weapons, TNT, and 1,000 detonators. Twenty miles north of the capital, a self-defense corps post even tried a bit of Viet Cong-type cunning. Getting word that the Reds planned to cut the post's barbed-wire fence by night and stage a raid, the corpsmen...
Dean Watson reported then that the Masters were strongly opposed to a depot system in the Houses. They only wanted to be sure they would be notified if any changes were contemplated, he said...