Word: oak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman can be seen while he watches the show. Scores of elegant new restaurants and bars have opened in the past few years, and they are always packed to their polished oak rafters with an ever expanding jet set, whom Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman...
Sometimes he certainly acted crazy. Like the day he stood talking earnestly to an oak tree, which he mistook for the King of Prussia. Or during the last years before his death in 1820, when he was shut up in Windsor Castle telling stories, laughing and crying, with a kingdom full of imaginary friends. Besides, he had acted pretty irrationally toward his American colonies. So, on evidence, historians have always believed that Britain's King George III was insane. Now two London psychiatrists have gone back over the medical records, including some still unpublished, and concluded that the historians...
...poor boy from Hepzibah (pop. 400), W. Va., Samuel Desist had every reason to live down to his patronym. But, setting his sights on an Army career, he enlisted and persisted. By 1962, when he was 39, Sam Desist wore a major's gold oak leaf and was press officer for the U.S. Army at Orléans in France. Desist also acquired a chic French wife, who bore him two sons, and a taste for la vie as it is not lived in Hepzibah...
...when the Grepos found a 13-year-old girl, trying to reach her parents in West Berlin, hidden in their car. Also detained by the Reds ever since Nov. 24, on suspicion of "aiding flight from the Republic," was Mary Helen Battle, 25, a West Berlin theology student from Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...first to receive notice of reclassification on these grounds: earlier in the month, three other protesters--another from Detroit and two from Royal Oak, Mich.--were also classified 1A. And more letters may be in the mail...