Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little copper-rich capital of Elisabethville, the flame trees were out in glorious profusion alongside the spacious swimming pools of the Union Miniére officials, whose mines and refineries were working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing out his enemies...
...laid the foundation for her European career. A manager friend of hers had asked her to sing an audition at Carnegie Hall, without saying who was to hear her. As she started to sing, she noticed a "slim, good-looking man with salt-and-pepper hair eating a club sandwich." Midway through the audition, the slim man abandoned his sandwich, excitedly pushed the accompanist aside and rushed Leontyne through Pace, pace mio Dio! from La Forza del Destino. "I then learned," says she, "that it was Herbert von Karajan...
...summer), Dr. Keys eats a leisurely breakfast-half a grapefruit, dry cereal with skim milk, unbuttered toast, jam and coffee. Then, brown paper lunch bag on the seat beside him, he drives to work in a two-toned Karmann-Ghia. Although lunch is slim-a sardine sandwich, an olive, a cooky and a glass of skim milk-Keys eats with deliberate slowness. "I don't like to insult food," he says. Lunch done, he sits back, closes his eyes, and goes to sleep for exactly ten minutes in his office chair...
...wanted was a sandwich and a cup of tea while his bus made a brief stop in Richmond, Va. But Bruce Boynton, a law student at Washington's Negro Howard University, wanted to eat his snack in the white section of the bus terminal's segregated lunchroom. A restaurant official ordered Boynton to leave, and when Boynton declined, called the cops. Boynton was fined $10 in police court, and his conviction was upheld by Virginia's Supreme Court...
...Moslems, who might boycott De Gaulle's projected referendum or be coerced into voting no. His presence set them wild with delight. Moslem men roared "Vive De Gaulle!" Moslem women tried to kiss his hand. A small Moslem boy gave De Gaulle everything he had-his sodden luncheon sandwich. For nearly a quarter of an hour, De Gaulle was literally lost in a sea of grinning, cheering faces. To make sure no harm could come to him, the Moslems formed a compact mass and escorted De Gaulle back to his car, where his bodyguards were waiting, pale with apprehension...