Word: phalanx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...
...Kennedys answered the call, and the Senator and his wife looked on approvingly when Mrs. Sadat gave a 4,500-year-old alabaster vase to the Kennedy Center. Later they came in phalanx-Rose, Eunice, Teddy and Joan-to Anderson House, where Sadat was the host. The aura of well being floated through the house, normally the home of the Society of the Cincinnati, descendants of the officers of George Washington's army...
Brain Trust. Reporting on his first 100 days as leader, Wallace, 41, spoke for 3½ hours while protected by a phalanx of 100 Muslim guards. To underscore the new tolerant line, the Muslims had invited a host of white civic and church leaders to the rally, although few showed up. Since Wallace's speech included several appeals for white money, the Muslims' new liberalism may have as much to do with finances as social enlightenment...
...secretary-generalship. That should give him a relatively free hand to pursue his policies-if only he can keep harmony within his own family. His brother, Lieut. Colonel Rifaat Assad, 34, who was elected for the first time to the National Command, directs the crack 30,000-man "Defense Phalanx" guarding Damascus. A nephew commands the army's "Struggle Brigade" within the Phalanx, a brother-in-law the 20,000-man special forces, and a cousin the paratroop "Thunder Brigade...
...point that came out of the community leaders' March summit conference with three members of the Board of Overseers was that the locals are fed up with the regular channels for dealing with University-city relations. These residents are disgusted because they are forced to deal with a phalanx of Harvard offices that view every suggestion as a threat and every meeting as a confrontation. Their disgust is compounded by frustration that occurs when Bok's Mass. Hall guards tell even neighborhood alumni that it is a waste of the president's time to meet with them...