Word: rangely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prize was a woman whose husband had failed to make good his escape: she wanted to go back to join him, Kadar or no Kadar. While the delegates talked to her, the crowd outside burned the banner with its Kadar effigy, stamped on it, spat on it. The cry rang out: "Menjetek a pokolba" (Go to hell!). Only fast work by their driver saved the Communists on their getaway. Again, screaming refugees leaped on the car and pelted it with mud as it sped off. Two days later, pleading "so few" applicants, the repatriation delegation called off all further camp...
...Adjustable Back. The great-grandfather of most modern furniture is Britain's famed igth century "Morris" chair with its familiar adjustable back, named for William Morris, leader in the protest against the machine-made monstrosities of his day. But it was Frank Lloyd Wright who rang in the modern age by demanding at the turn of the century "the right use of our great substitute for tools-Machines...
...costly, he emitted a hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew the line one evening, however, when a naughty Calcutta nightclub, featuring a couple of near-naked girl dancers, rang him up to confirm his table reservation. Protesting that the Lama was a wag's logical victim, his secretary cried: "This is horrible! This could never happen in Tibet...
...cops, and a magistrate (the only official with authority to give the order to fire on a crowd), loaded them into trucks and headed for Mokhimpur. Taking cover in the cane fields, they fixed bayonets and prepared to charge the still-singing villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers scattered. Some dashed into a hut and bolted the door. More shots followed. The hut's grass roof burst into flame, and as panicked villagers...
...morning long, Butler and Macmillan worked at their desks as usual, each waiting for the fateful phone call summoning him to Buckingham Palace. At 1:30 widower Butler went home to a lonely lunch. A few moments later the phone rang in 11 Downing Street, official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Macmillan rushed off to "kiss hands upon his appointment...