Word: placarding
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...Europe, won Laborites' praise as levelheaded and responsible. He took a traditional ribbing from Oxford University students, who lost no time in pointing up the implied challenge to Nixon in the election victory of New York's Nelson Rockefeller, is IT ROCKY AT THE TOP? asked one placard...
...Wotch it Chally!" the fireman yelled, just as the torch popped the placard into flames. The other fireman jumped and threw the sign to the ground, where it was stamped to ashes by other men in blue...
...Last week the court declared Mboya & Co. guilty of criminal libel, slapped each with a token ?75 fine, not enough to make martyrs of them. Outside the courthouse, where thousands of Bwana Tom's followers had demonstrated only a few days before, one native forlornly waved a placard saying EIGHT MILLION AFRICANS ON TRIAL, for the benefit of the small, halfhearted crowd-and the Nairobi police phlegmatically waited to quell the riot that never came...
...righted on time), tore her flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who managed to keep his footing at the pool's edge, almost lifted Announcer Gene Rayburn off the diving board on the wings of a placard picturing Co-Sponsor Greyhound's mascot. But the show hung together and the pictures moved surely and crisply to the mainland, so that millions of viewers as far north as Toronto could join Steve Allen in Havana "on a romantic and starry night...
...were the Army's senior commanders, striving both by indirection and by extraordinarily blunt talk to overturn Defense Department policy and win for the Army a major place in the missile world. Displayed around the hotel ballroom were Army missiles and parts of missiles; at the entrance a placard blazoned the Army's basic doctrinal claim to render the Air Force obsolete. "In the missile era," read the placard, quoting the Army's Lieut. General James M. Gavin, "the man who controls the land will control the space above...