Word: gauntlet
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...journey made by the Prince and his family to their summer palace in a village above Palermo. Descending from dusty carriages, Don Fabrizio is greeted by a host of punctuous officials and the jaunty blaring of a brass band. With deliberate steps, he walks the gauntlet of gaping, impoverished eyes to enter the cathedral where the organ is playing an aria from "La Traviata." As the last notes hang amid marble frescoes high above, the band is still heard outside in the blazing courtyard. And while the villagers push and shove for a view, the Prince and his family...
Attorney General Bobby Kennedy last week ran the civil rights gauntlet, got flogged from both sides, and emerged scarred-but still in better shape than anyone might have expected when he started. The occasion was Bobby's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, where his unhappy mission was to urge members to water down a civil rights bill so that it might have a practical chance of passing the whole House...
...even this contrivance can be overlooked; Miss Rutherford's uproarious detecting saves all. She early flings her gauntlet to the official investigator, Inspector Craddock, (When he refuses to admit that old Enderby may have been done in, Miss Marple swings her cloak 'round her shoulder like a Caesar crossed and announces imperiously, "I shall have to investigate this myself!") and does not retrieve it until the last bit of evidence--symbolized by the plaster of paris mold she carries in her pocket--has fallen into place...
...Threats. Only in Alabama was the usual segregationist tirade heard. There, incoming Governor George C. Wallace, 43, who has pledged to "stand in the schoolhouse door" if necessary to prevent integration, cried: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Wearing two sets of underwear (he insisted they were "Confederate suits," not union suits) beneath his clothes to guard against the Yankee-like cold snap, Wallace threatened a Dixiecrat rebellion. Said he: "We intend to carry our fight for freedom across this nation...
...tempered press was quick to take offense. Adding a new phrase to the already rich vocabulary of invective, the Accra Evening News branded the bishop as a "vicious insinuationist," warned that unless he stops his "utter misuse of the pulpit, we shall have no alternative than to accept the gauntlet"-that is, to throw him out again...