Word: placardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...sidewalk in front of Montreal's gilt-trimmed Ritz-Carlton Hotel, placard-bearing pickets from some 20 labor unions staged an indignant demonstration one morning last week. "The workers protest," one sign proclaimed. "After Murdochville, Kruppville" warned another, in an obvious attempt to keep the United Steelworkers' strike at the Murdochville works of the Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. in the public eye. In one of the Ritz-Carlton's handsomely appointed suites, German Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 50 (TIME, Aug. 12), shrugged off the demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with...
Next day the Chinese widow appeared outside the grey-walled U.S. embassy carrying a crudely lettered placard bearing the inscription, in English and Chinese: "The Killer-Reynolds-Is Innocent? Protest Against U.S. Court-Martial's Unfair, Unjust Decision." Newspapeir editorials charged angrily that if Reynolds had killed an American, he would not have got off scot-free...
Soon after the widow with her placard appeared before the embassy, small knots of spectators joined her. Police dispersed them, but as their numbers grew the police were unable to cope with them. Inside the embassy an officer remarked: "Look, we're being demonstrated against." The crowds grew larger, began to stone the embassy; eight attachés took to an air-raid shelter. Chinese police and firemen tried to keep the crowds back with fire hoses, were greeted with howls of derision when they turned on the hose and produced only a feeble spurt of water...