Word: phalanx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...credits are interesting only because they show that the best people, working with priceless material, can make mistakes, and Royal Heritage is more often than not a royal bore. The art work is generally not shown to advantage, Wheldon is a lackluster narrator, and the phalanx of royals should have been marched by in double step instead of lingering for a chat...
...American political campaign trip: advance men running around with clipboards; overly efficient volunteers bossing one another and everyone else around; dour Secret Service agents in double-knit suits mumbling to one another through microphones hidden up their sleeves. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothesmen, was "the Man"-bald, stocky and distinguished by the world's most famous eye patch...
...April 30, 2000 people closed in on the parking lot from the road, the marsh and the sea to make a stand against the plant's construction. From the highway came the main phalanx, marching and chanting eight abreast and hundreds deep. Reporters and cameramen postured and scurried before them like the fiddler crabs that live in the marsh. Amidst the dust swirling up to the whirling blades of police helicopters hovering above, the demonstrators poured over the parking lot. They clapped and cheered as they saw a second line of demonstrators moving inland from the sea like a slow...
This week LÒpez Portillo, accompanied by a phalanx of ministers and experts, visited Washington. There the former law school student and professor talked to members of the U.S. Supreme Court and addressed a meeting of Congress; before he left the U.S., side trips were scheduled to Williamsburg, Va., and Chicago, which is home to a sizable ( 150,000) Mexican population...
...Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate to fall "into the hands of a district attorney more concerned with his own ambitions than with truth and justice...