Word: placarding
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...tight race. In less than two years, redhaired, blue-eyed Jack Gilligan, who never really stopped campaigning, has earned a reputation to match the motto on his placard: "The Congressman who gets things done." He opened a local office, started a newsletter-both innovations in the district -and even put out reports in Braille. He arranged free junkets to Washington for high school students and brought delegations of Washington officials to Cincinnati to discuss local problems with community leaders...
...producing an instant cacophony of complaint in Congress, in churches and on campuses across the land, have begun to lose heart. Last week, for example, when U.S. forces in Viet Nam climbed above the 300,000-man mark, there were no full-page ads, no teach-ins, no placard-studded demonstrations to mark the milestone...
...bank executive in Chicago. "These prices are robbery. The Government seems more interested in the price of rice in Saigon than in food costs in New York," says Manhattan-dwelling Mrs. Joan Lester. Says Boston's Mrs. Irene Krutt: "If I were younger, I'd grab a placard and picket...
...placard placed over the Gemini hatches by back-up Astronauts Jim Lovell and Ed Aldrin, they read...
...brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife and a wounded daughter to escape. Outmanned and outgunned, the defenders were finally whittled down to three men, who came out with hands up and holding a white flag. They were gunned down in their tracks, and a placard hung on the front of the demolished home: "This is the fate of all traitors." According to some reports, Hafez was captured and put under arrest; other reports claimed he was elsewhere during the shooting and managed to escape. Either way, the rebellion soon spread throughout Syria, taking a toll variously estimated...