Word: donning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the intruders began bludgeoning Parker with a pistol, another with a stick. A third picked up a garbage can and hit him. Parker went down, bleeding. "I didn't do it!" he cried again. "Well, who did?" demanded a man. Wildly, furiously, Parker pointed at his fellow...
Down the concrete steps they dragged him, feet first, his head cracking again and again on the treads. Parker pleaded in vain: "I'll walk if you all don't drag me!" Blood trailed the figures as they stumbled onward, and a bloody handprint was slapped on the...
On with the Dance. Beset lately by riotous students and rebellious political opponents, President de la Guardia angrily scooped up Dame Margot and clapped her in jail. "I don't believe in sacred cows," he snapped. Dame Margot of the moon-white skin spent a night in what Panamanians...
Castro dropped in unannounced on the Bronx Zoo ("the best thing New York City has"). "I heard there was a riot at the gate," said Zoo Director James Oliver. "I rushed right out and there he was." Castro fed elephants, gorillas and orangutans, ate a hot dog and an ice...
He was equally blithe about rumors of assassination plots, some spread by his own aides. Police picked up one crackpot who had planned to toss a pipe bomb ("just for kicks") into a Castro rally in Central Park. "I sleep well and don't worry," said Castro. "I will...