Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...massive stone building marked Comite Central du Parti Communisté in Paris, three lookouts slammed the door. A moment later, dense smoke began pouring from the chimney. By the time the police broke in half an hour later, most of the evidence was gone. Other raids were more productive. Lyon yielded a rich crop of stolen French army seals, handy for forging identity papers. Clermont-Ferrand and Toulon produced enough nuts, bolts, clubs, buckshot and shoemakers' knives to equip a hundred riots...
...seniors massed at the post to await the starting whistle. For the first hundred yards an unidentified male wearing a coonskin coat and a beanie led the runners. But he and the whole field had to give way to a skillful roller from West Newton named Mary Lou Lyon, who, though starting in the third file, had the skill and luck to outlast her classmates in the grueling grind...
...Tsukahira, research fellow in the Russian Research Center, will describe the history of Japan's civilization since 1800 (185, Group XIII), "History of Russia Since 1917" (156, Group XIV), and "The Republics of the Carribean" (177, Group XII) are also offered. A newcomer to the department, Bryce D. Lyon, will lecture on "Social and Economic Problems of the Middle Ages" (123, Group...
...Industrial Prince. After the war, he proposed three times to a Scottish lady named Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon before she accepted him. She was a commoner (the first to become a Queen since Henry VIII's day), and dreaded the bleak rigidity of royalty's life: "I said to him I was afraid . . . as royalty, never, never again to be free to think or speak or act as I really feel . . ." On the eve of their wedding in 1923, the London Times looked right past the royal couple and remarked, with more meaning than good manners, that the public...
...confused with Dr. (Israel) Lyon's line of tooth powder & paste...