Word: litteral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France slowly picked up the pieces and dug out from under the debris of revolt. In Paris' elegant Tuileries Gardens, sanitation workers plucked beer bottles and litter from the multicolored flower beds. On the capital's broad boulevards, road crews shoveled steaming asphalt into the gaps where paving stones had been pried up to build barricades. Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks. Trains and subways rumbled once more; the whine of jetliners echoed again at the airports. By the millions, French workers trooped back to their factories. Though there were still...
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...Gaulle have appeared to be inseparable?a tribute to both his undeniable greatness and his penchant for saying it so often that people believed it. Last week the myth that France and De Gaulle are one lay shattered forever amid the garbage festering in the streets of Paris, the litter of uprooted paving stones, the splinters of chestnut trees hacked down to make barricades, the blood spilled on the capital's boulevards. France was a nation in angry rebellion ?at times, it seemed, not far removed from civil war. It was a measure of De Gaulle's stature that...
Along the third base line traffic was light to moderate around the McCarthy headquarters. Further up the line draft information was being dispensed and Resistance buttons sold indescriminately. Peace Pets were also on display: a kitty-litter of (predictably) kittens, a dozen dogs, one waterlogged turtle, two gross of goldfish, and a dove were up for grabs...
Only for the Masters each year does Roberts let down the barriers. This week something like 25,000 fans will invade Augusta, trample its fairways and litter its clubhouse lawn; millions more will watch on TV. Only one of the competitors in U.S. golf's most prestigious tournament can win the $20,000, the green coat and the lifetime playing privileges, but all will leave proud that they were even invited to play at Augusta National, the club that three-time Masters Champion Jack Nicklaus calls "a monument to everything great in golf...