Word: lapel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Germany's Rolf Hochhuth is a demon researcher, an addicted player of the blame game, and a member of the lapel-grabbing school of play writing. In The Deputy, he buttonholed playgoers to blame Pope Pius XII for not having protested the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. In Soldiers, he is again peremptorily grabbing the audience's lapels to argue that Churchill connived at the murder of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, head of the Polish government in exile, in order to placate Stalin...
SATURDAY, APRIL 27 -- I row a boat race and split. On the MTA to Logan a middle-aged man starts winking and smiling and gesticulating at my right lapel. Looking down, I see that I am wearing a broken rifle pin, symbol of the War Resisters' League. I tell him that it so happens I am on my way back to Columbia right now to carry on a Revolution. He thinks that's fine...
...radical students charge that Springer has manipulated public opinion in order to create a repressive, Fascist-style society in West Germany and an atmosphere of hate against them. Even before the Dutschke incident, the most popular lapel buttons among radical students was Enteignet Springer-Dispossess Springer. In response to the wide-scale attacks against Springer's plants, Bild Am Sonntag, his big Sunday paper, vowed: "No terror will bend us." His readers seemed to like what they read. Despite all the efforts of radical students to stop the distribution of his papers, they enjoyed last week the best sales...
...Lapel Pins & Stickers. No Democrat will be left in any doubt at all about the mechanics of writing in the President's name. Because some voters might invalidate their ballots by misspelling Lyndon or Baines, campaign tacticians are urging them simply to put down "President Johnson." Some 15,000 green-and-white PRESIDENT JOHNSON lapel pins and an equal number of WRITE IN PRESIDENT JOHNSON bumper stickers are being distributed, while about 2,000 neighborhood coordinators will personally hand out numbered "pledge cards" to the state's 87,500 registered Democrats and to many...
...Grand Charles"-a suggested lapel button for American tourists to France: WHERE is ROBESPIERRE NOW THAT WE NEED...