Word: placards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They called a "denunciation meeting," but not one Chinese came forward to condemn him. The Reds then arrested six members of the hospital staff as "reactionary pro-Americans." None of them has been heard from since. Dr. Wallace was paraded through Wuchow and the surrounding countryside carrying a derisive placard, then returned to Wuchow jail when he appeared to be in a state of collapse...
...Market. In Portland, reported the Oregon Journal, a local dress shop put a placard in its window: "Maternity Fashions for the Modern Miss...
...great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...
...plane arrived, they booed him lustily-partly for banning a Saint Patrick's Day parade in Londonderry, partly for representing the hated partition of Ireland, and partly for supporting the British Crown. "There'll Always Be An England While She Can Deal from the Bottom," read one placard...
Early in the evening 50 West Berlin police drove up to the Direktion, charged in, took the Soviet guards by surprise, ousted some railway workers (see cut), and posted McNulty's orange placard by the gate. The Soviet-German press blared headlines about "illegal confiscation...