Word: roading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate was expected to confirm Mrs. Mesta with little delay (she had been hostess to plenty of them), so she quickly set about preparing to leave for Europe. She closed "Uplands," her fashionable Foxhall Road mansion, ordered the Mesta mansion at Newport shut up, and moved into Washington's Sulgrave Club. There was one annoying hitch: A shipment of costly fabrics containing materials for the ministerial wardrobe was pilfered en route to Washington, and even the FBI, when called in, couldn't find it. But Perle was not fazed. "It's too hot to think about clothes...
...times, Hafiz shakes his green turban sadly at all the misunderstandings. Some of his converts have tried to help him out. Nervous Archivist Piet van Wijk, 41, made a glowing speech about the beauty of Islamic prayer. Suave, mustached Zeno de Lyon explained that Islam always taught the middle road. "With their system," said Zeno, "one can avoid both communism and capitalism...
...Sophoulis joined the late Eleutherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World War II, he advocated collaboration with...
...Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
...romance ever traveled a rockier road. Among the bumps: Joe's impulsive enlistment in the Foreign Legion (it took President Roosevelt's appearance in the strip to get him out), his six years as a private in the U.S. Army (which made Palooka the hero of numerous recruiting posters), Ann's airplane crash in Wyoming (40,000 fans flooded Fisher with anxious inquiries) and her subsequent amnesia...