Word: picnicing
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...Tunisian and Canadian soldiers being disarmed by the Congolese. As usual in the Congo, the whole thing started with a misunderstanding compounded by native Congolese hysteria. On a peaceful, sunny Sunday at a lake outside Leopoldville, where hundreds of Belgian families and off-duty U.N. employees had gone to picnic and swim, a U.N. truck with armed Tunisian U.N. troops drew up with urgent orders from Dayal's headquarters, instructing all U.N. people to leave the area immediately. On a nearby hillside, scores of Congolese troops, also relaxing with their wives and girl friends after a hard week...
...dogged mind, the greater danger is not bruised white feelings but open black rebellion. Warned Kenneth Kaunda recently: continued white domination of Northern Rhodesia would bring "an explosion of a far-reaching nature" that would "by contrast make Kenya's Mau Mau seem a child's picnic...
...forget the sight of the Trees' English butler, Collins, dying by stately inches at the thought of what that mass of Democrats could do to the house, or of Ronnie Tree, stiff, perspiring, and apprehensive. And all the time Marietta was sashaying around as if it were a picnic in Central Park...
...Saturday the Yardlings will picnic by the Charles, with Schneider's Band providing music to drink by. That evening a candlelight banquet in the Freshman Union will precede four hours of dancing to the music of Harry Marshard in a subtly disguised Memorial Hall...
...Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...