Word: placardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand at suing corporations. Young's version is that the two met accidentally: as Phillips walked out of Young's office in a rage last year, he noticed a sandwich man picketing 277 Park Avenue, an apartment building owned by the New York Central. The placard said: "Central is unfair to tenants." Phillips tracked down the sandwich man's employer, says Young, and found Bresnick, who was vexed with Young because he had been turned down as renting agent for 277 Park. Phillips says this is romantic nonsense, insists that Bresnick is an old friend...
...Russians protested mildly about the press coverage of their tour when a Montreal newspaper headline quoted a demonstrator's placard ("Bandits Go Home"). "Hooligans," sniffed the leader of the party. They continued to plod around to farms, ask endless questions and take volumes of notes. But Canadian government officials, many of whom have been openly critical of "cold war hysteria" in the U.S., were plainly rattled. Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture Stanislas Joseph Chagnon publicly apologized for the demonstrators' behavior. "I told the delegates I am sorry," he said. "I am embarrassed." To avoid any further embarrassment...
Russia's touring farm experts, a surprise hit in the U.S.. got a decidedly mixed reception when their road show moved into Canada. Canadian government officials and farmers treated them courteously enough. But at airports and at hotel entrances, noisy groups of placard-carrying demonstrators, many of them immigrants who came to Canada as anti-Communist refugees after World War II, turned out to jeer and denounce the visitors...
...stood in Washington's crowded U.S. Department of Commerce Auditorium, 13-year-old Sandra Sloss of St. Joseph's School, Granite City, Ill. smoothed down her cotton dress, adjusted the numeral placard (No. 49) that hung around her neck, and decided that she didn't have a chance. The other 61 finalists, who had beaten out the 5,000,000 original contestants in the annual Scripps-Howard spelling bee, were obviously going to be too good. Nevertheless, as the warmup period began at 8:50 a.m., Sandra determined to do her best. She took one last look...
...platform were Communist Bosses Malenkov and Khrushchev and Marshals Bulganin and Voroshilov. Beside Molotov. under a placard proclaiming, in French and Russian. Franco-Russian friendship, sat French Communist Poet Louis Aragon. Blustered Molotov: "We shall not be caught napping by ratification of the Paris agreements ... If need be, the Soviet Union will demonstrate its right and the righteousness of our cause. The Soviet Union and the Chinese People's Republic and the People's Democracies have such manpower, and enjoy such support abroad, that there is no force in the world that could arrest our progress along...