Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three disbanded corps, totaling 702 men, were rich in history and tradition. The 59-member Papal Guard of Honor (formerly the Noble Guard) traces its ancestry back to 1485. In 1527, every member was killed defending the Vatican against the sack of Rome by Emperor Charles V. Another casualty was the 498-member Palatine Guard, dating from 1850. The usefulness of both groups had been reduced to ceremonial functions. The third disbanded corps, the Vatican Gendarmes, consisted of 145 armed and trained ex-soldiers and policemen, who were still performing very real guard duties...
...than a club and a puffy paragraph is worth its weight in gold brocade, Fairchild thrived. In 1957, weeks before it was shown to the buyers, he managed to get hold of a sketch of Givenchy's precedent-shattering shift, later to be called "the sack," and ran it on WWD's front page. In 1960, he got advance word of Yves St. Laurent's distinctive new silhouette for the House of Dior, which he maliciously described as looking like "a toothpaste tube on top of a brioche." Soon Fairchild was not only sitting in the front...
...willing to pay four bucks to see Woodstock at a Sack theatre, then you will certainly grab the opportunity to give up seven bucks for Ethel Grodzins Romm's extensive collection of spicy excerpts from the underground press...
Afro-Saxon Leaders. After three days of negotiations, the government agreed to sack an unpopular army commander, and the mutiny flickered out. Four persons were killed during the week; of the army's seven reported casualties, one had received a shot in the hand, another had sprained an ankle, and a third had suffered a case of "exhaustion and constipation...
...cruelest metaphor for greedy indifference occurs toward the end of The Tin Drum, when Oskar's father is killed in his grocery cellar by occupying Russian forces. His body falls across the path of some ants that have set up supply lines to a smashed sack of sugar. "The ants found themselves facing a new situation," Grass wrote, "but, undismayed by the detour, soon built a new highway round the doubled-up Matzerath, for the sugar that trickled out of the burst sack had lost none of its sweetness while Marshal Rokossovski was occupying the city of Danzig...