Word: placardized
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...three-tiered, pink and white stage, with the operetta's title decked across the middle in green icing-like script: "Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride." The highest tier is a small semi-circle at the rear of the stage: around the perimeter, pink columns support a placard bearing one half of a red cutout heart. It's a satisfying moment when the significance of the set suddenly becomes clear: the whole thing is like a giant wedding cake...
...into neutral. She had long ago learned that she couldn't write a word in the afternoon, that her thoughts ran smoothly only after 9 p.m., but her thesis was due in 148 hours, and she resolved to try to write at least her conclusion. She glanced at the placard on the wall above her that had "TYPE" in block letters, but its hypnotic effect had long worn off. She adjusted the pillow she was sitting on, thumbed through her notecards, and decided to put some Tchaikovsky on the stereo...
...peace initiative the European leaders had agreed upon at their summit in Venice last June. But it was a qualified endorsement; he emphasized that the European effort should supplement rather than supplant the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel. When an Italian Communist deputy held up a placard reading NO TO CAMP DAVID! Sadat departed from his text to say, with a smile, "I have not come here to sell Camp David...
...kick members out of the room. The first warning came when one protester at first refused to stand up as Judge Lawrence Feloni entered the courtroom. When the group loudly hissed at Joseph Mlot-Mroz, a demonstrator who was not part of BAARD but carried an anti-Israel placard at the protest, they were again admonished by court officials...
Adding to protesters' woes, Joseph Mlot-Mroz of the mysterious Polish Freedom Fighters, Inc. showed up for Saturday's demonstration. The scourge of Boston area demonstrations, this stocky middle-aged man attends many public gatherings with a carefully painted placard disparaging Israel and praising the United States. He gives no explanation for the connection between Polish workers and politics in the Middle East...