Word: roof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once & for All. When President Johnson heard of U Thant's statements, he went through the roof. Among other things, he authorized White House Press Secretary George Reedy to declare emphatically: "There are no authorized negotiations under way with Mr. Thant or any other government." In fact, said Reedy, the U.S. has yet to receive from any source any "meaningful" proposal for negotiations. The President also authorized Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to issue a "white paper" aimed at proving once and for all the extent of North Vietnamese aggression in South Viet Nam (see THE WORLD...
...them." Months ago, Karp and friends showed up to protest, then recently to haggle as crowbar and sledge hammer sliced into Fifth Avenue's elegant Brokaw mansion, a late 19th century simulacrum of France's Chenonceaux chateau. Karp offered to buy two copper finials perched atop the roof, was told by the wreckers that removing them with care was too dangerous and would slow up the job of razing the building. Said the sympathetic foreman, "Sure it's a shame, but something should have been done about it before...
...show at night. The word was that Moreau was completely unphotogenic-the nose and ears too small, the mouth too thick, the body nothing special. By the time Director Louis Malle saw her in the Paris stage production of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and asked her to star in his first film, Moreau had 20 forgettable films behind her. "Nine years of bad films-it was a cinematic adolescence," she says. "I never felt at ease on the screen because I was aware that I was far from beautiful. People who wanted to be nice...
...crowd brought in by trucks from the provinces surged around the U.S. embassy in Kampala. The mob brandished signs proclaiming TO HELL WITH AMERICA-BLOODTHIRSTY GO HOME! While Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians beamingly watched from the plinth of the Obote Freedom Arch, two rioters scaled the embassy's roof and tore down the American flag...
...model of the world, with the roof taken off and the streets torn up," is Author Stacton's description of a Spanish army bivouac into which a couple of his characters have strayed during the Thirty Years War. Stacton could also be describing his own novel abovit that war. In that camp, the civilians-stable boys, prostitutes, grooms, bakers, wine sellers, nurses, wives, peddlers, moneylenders, cardsharps, children, thieves, thugs, priests, a company of traveling actors-outnumber the soldiers by as much as eight to one, and the same wild and brutalized rabble roils through the pages of the book...