Word: placards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time and again Khrushchev's motorcade of black, closed-top Cadillacs ran between silent crowds at a 35-m.p.h. clip. His route was patrolled-sidewalks, roofs, windows, gratings, manhole covers-by 3,300 blue-uniformed police and plainclothesmen. Here and there, Ukrainian and Hungarian pickets waved placards-WELCOME MURDERER, and GO TO THE MOON, LEAVE NEW YORK FOR-US but the police had even ordered the pickets not to carry placard poles...
...anyway before the brooding statue of Liberator Jose Marti in Plaza Civica. Motorcycle cops led off in new white crash helmets, followed by marines in maroon berets, MPs in black berets, and more than 206,000 laborers. "Fidel,'when you get time, remember the chauffeurs," pleaded one giant placard. But the Reds knew Castro's new mood; pro-Communist sloganeering was conspicuously missing...
...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...