Word: laurels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Dr. von KleinSmid had finished, Dr. Eaton arose, and taking a crown of laurel from a page boy, began to intone the "pronouncement" Said...
...with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel. It was designed by a Belgrade tailor who made himself a pair of scarce bedroom slippers from the rejected samples...
...only 12,000 new recruits. Even if it won all 171 of the NLRB elections it had pending it would add only 37,000 more. Biggest C.I.O. gains were being made among the South's 639,000 unorganized woodworkers: in Mississippi (including the big Masonite plant at Laurel), in Louisiana and along the Sabine River in East Texas...
When squat puppet president José Laurel invited him to join his cabinet, Roxas declined. He was appointed anyhow, and meetings were held at his bedside. Jap guards surrounded his house. He received checks which he did not cash. The newspapers announced his membership on puppet commissions before Roxas had heard of them. He resisted attempts to take him to Tokyo, but he did accept the chairmanship of a Laurel food-gathering commission-on the condition that "the Japanese do not get one grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion...
Between warm afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...