Word: placarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he heard and saw. The crowds were bigger and more enthusiastic than he expected, bolstering his hopes for carrying Texas in November (against any Democrat except Texas' own Lyndon Johnson) and the Midwest farm states despite farmer discontent. In Fargo, N. Dak., upward of 3,000 cheering, placard-waving Dakotans greeted him at the airport-and, incidentally, jammed up the departure of Democrat Jack Kennedy, in town to lend a hand in the special senatorial election (he was greeted by 200). Nixon found another crowd, complete with brass band and Fourth of July sparklers, awaiting him in front...
...restlessly dissatisfied as their customers are satisfied. Above all. the Stratfords have recaptured some of the fluidity of the Elizabethan theater, in which the "two hours' traffick of our stage" was literally true, since scene followed scene without break, and the scenery might be no more than a placard reading "A Wood Near Athens" (see cut). To judge by the traffick rush to the Stratfords, today's audiences agree with Critic Maurice Morgann, who wrote of Shakespeare in 1774: "It is safer to say that we are possessed by him, than that we possess...
...after the summit blowup, to the effect that the President might have saved the summit had he apologized to Khrushchev for the U-2 incident. Rolling wearily into Denver one night last week, Kennedy was met at the airport by a teen-aged girl with a Kennedy-for-President placard and a perplexed expression on her face. "Why," she asked, "did you say that President Eisenhower should apologize to Khrushchev?" Startled, Kennedy muttered that he had not meant that the U.S. should "apologize," only that it should have expressed "diplomatic regrets." Jack Kennedy was on the defensive...
...Little Rock and Atlanta, placard-carrying students picketed downtown department stores, urging a boycott until lunch counters are open to both whites and Negroes...