Word: hall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this was napalm, you would be dead." This greeting, planned by a protest group that has offices in the same building, was accompanied by banners and placards taunting her about Viet Nam and hunger. As Pat gamely launched into her speech, seven barefoot girls in black burst into the hall and chanted an antiwar hex on her in crude doggerel...
...Prince's own idea to attempt to quiet the Welsh protests against his investiture and at the same time satisfy his own well-honed sense of duty. Taking along only his cello, a record player and a metal cabinet for some of his papers, he moved into Pantycelyn Hall, a dormitory for the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth. The Prince's arrival, in his indigo MG, transformed the sleepy seacoast town (pop. 10,460). Tourists poured in, and so did police and the press, to mingle obtrusively with Aberystwyth's miniskirted or denim-clad locals...
With Permanent Guard Sergeant Anthony Speed of Scotland Yard installed in a room across the hall, Charles plunged into a cram course in Welsh language and history. He made his own bed, carried his own cafeteria tray, and began receiving sweaters knitted for him by the dames of Aberystwyth. He also found time to surf, squash and perform some princely duties...
...floor dining room of the Great Kremlin Palace. In a pointed show of conviviality, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Russian leaders pulled up chairs to various tables and joined the foreign delegates. Then it was back to business in ornate St. George's Hall for the afternoon's hortatory oratory...
...Kennedy Administration. Nixon also has a Red Barn painted by a previous occupant, Dwight Eisenhower. Tricia's room features a picture of azaleas, presented to her as 1968 Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent the White House Mary Cassatt's Portrait of a Young Girl, Ernest Lawson's Harlem River...