Word: droves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engulfed in the pageantry. The two statesmen rode in triumph in an open-top black Citroen between ten-deep lines of Parisians, escorted by red-white-and-blue-uniformed motorcycle cops, later by shining-helmeted swordsmen of the Garde Republicaine. That afternoon, amid dignified rather than hysterical applause, they drove up the Champs-Elysees to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. There the President saluted, walked past a guard of honor of hard. fit. proud-looking troops, laid a wreath of pink lilies and red roses beside the eternal flame. The President, standing bareheaded...
...final afternoon of his mission to France, the President drove out of town, dropped in at his old NATO command at Rocquencourt, headed on through the green lanes of prospering France to stay overnight with De Gaulle at the country mansion of French Presidents, the centuries-old Chateau de Rambouillet. There Ike confided to De Gaulle the major conclusion of his mission to date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided...
...Scots. Early next morning, the President was in Scotland. Through the rolling fields of Ayrshire, across moors and heaths, skirting the cottage of Poet Robert Burns, the President drove to battlemented Culzean (pronounced Cul-lane) Castle high on its cliff above the Firth of Clyde. Three months after the war, the Scottish people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess...
...same that he used effectively in 1956 as ambassador to Colombia to show his coolness toward then-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla: letting the snubs fall on a mere charge d'affaires. Just as Castro learned Bonsai's plans, a Washington News editorial reprinted in Havana drove home the message: "There is a point where patient tolerance becomes obsequious humility...
...Clutch. In Los Angeles, Robert Patrick was arrested after he grew tired of waiting in a bus for the driver to return, drove off with it himself...