Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Refugees cram the city's once spacious environs, building their temporary houses of wood and palm leaves along the boulevards like so many hot-dog stands on the way to the Rose Bowl. But this is not a game. About 3,000 wives and children of the richer families have already fled to France and their European bank accounts. Yet Phnom-Penh is far from chaos. The Khmers do not panic easily...
...clock. I'm worried about my sons. The oldest is only 15, but the police will snatch him. All the police know how to do is eat money, money, money. It's never been this bad before," and he snaps his mouth like a dog nipping at the heels of a retreating intruder. People are shifting away from the Lon Nol regime. By the scores refugees are heading out of Phnom-Penh and into new havens on the other side. Others are waiting for the bombing to stop on Aug. 15 before they join the exodus. Many...
...Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler for diplomatic decorum. He liked to vent his conservative views in pithy asides, and several times was overheard referring to islanders as niggers. "He loved dogs more than humans," a Jamaican official said, recalling that for the return of one of his lost pets (a mongrel dog) the ambassador once offered $500, which is more than many Jamaicans earn in a year. De Roulet rattled Jamaicans even more by telling a Rotary Club lunch gathering that the visa section of his embassy...
...just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...
...traveling players who ply their ancient art along the river's muddy banks. But their message has a decidedly new twist. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Otrabanda Theatre Company-four actors, one actress, a crew-woman and, until recently, a dog named Sweenie-this summer is bringing frenetic, sometimes avant-garde drama to 30 Mississippi River communities from St. Louis to New Orleans...