Word: phalanx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...justify his killing of a Vietnamese double agent. On another program, Fashion-Model Czarina Eileen Ford got into a ranting match with two other women over whether mannequins are sexually promiscuous (some are, some aren't). Author Luigi Barzini told of the time that Mussolini, accompanied by a phalanx of officials and journalists, was motoring through the countryside. Suddenly the caravan halted and Il Duce got out and walked to a wall, apparently to gaze at the scene. Everybody else respectfully went over to share the leader's bucolic vision, only to discover that Mussolini was simply relieving himself...
...Ellsworth, U.S. Ambassador to the Atlantic Alliance, arrived from Europe. Also on hand were George Ball and Dean Acheson, John J. McCloy and Henry Cabot Lodge, General Lucius Clay and General Alfred Gruenther-a reunion of the old U.S. foreign policy establishment. After the meeting, they presented a solid phalanx of support for the Administration. Snapped Acheson: "It is absolutely asinine to reduce forces unilaterally." Later in the week, even Lyndon Johnson weighed in with a stern warning against troop withdrawal...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Philip Roth stared in silence from the audience, Village Voice Columnist Jill Johnston proclaimed that "all women are lesbians" and began an onstage group grope with two female companions. The remainder of the rambunctious encounter featured Novelist and "Prisoner of Sex" Norman Mailer battling a phalanx of feminists led by Australian Author Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch). As the distinctively distaff heckling mounted, Mailer shouted, "I'm not going to sit here and let you harridans harangue me." Mailer's was not the only maimed male ego. When asked by hapless Critic Anatole Broyard...
...home town of Greenfield, Iowa, they had a school board meeting a few nights ago to listen to the new salary demands of the teachers. For the first time in years, a solid phalanx of concerned taxpayers from town and farm showed up to listen and to judge. Another thing happened about the same time. They showed the premiere of a movie, Cold Turkey, which was filmed in that tiny village, so long deserted by its young people and criticized by its residents, who have felt passed over by modern society. One shot showed the sun rising on the clear...
After his last session with Vien & Co., Abrams and white-haired U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker swept into President Thieu's Saigon Palace ?brushing past a phalanx of startled Vietnamese officials who had been waiting to offer the President Tet holiday greetings. Not until four days later, when they were summoned to an urgent briefing at MACV headquarters in Saigon, did reporters have any idea that something was afoot...