Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspapermen went to neighboring motels for a few hours' rest. The television men had to stay on hand for possible short reports: Scherer sat on the platform for an hour waiting for his network's call, which finally came while he was in the middle of a sandwich and a cup of coffee...
...campaigners throughout U.S. history, came up with a prodigious list of well-known stars-Thomas Mitchell as Grover Cleveland, Edward G. Robinson as Teddy Roosevelt, Art Carney as F.D.R.-and a curious collection of littleknown facts, e.g., William Jennings Bryan (Martin Gabel) calmed his nerves with a ham sandwich before his "Cross of Gold" speech...
Stumping for President, Quadros put aside the undignified platform gimmicks he used in state politics. He combed his hair, tightened his tie, brushed the dandruff off his shoulders, and never once pulled a sandwich from his pocket in mid-harangue. He avoided personal attacks on Lott, refused to sling corruption charges indiscriminately...
...just after the Revolutionary War, was fast slipping its Puritan chains. The rich, the decent and the God fearing still ran things, but there was plenty of heavy drinking, and sons of the well-to-do liked to prove their nonchalance by slipping a hundred-dollar bill into a sandwich and eating it. Poor Timothy Dexter wanted desperately to break into the upper crust, but he hadn't a prayer. All he had was money, made by buying up Continental dollars for pennies when most people thought they would become worthless. Overnight a man of affairs instead...
...street, and European women humiliated by being forced to parade in the nude. Worse news came three hours later as a convoy of twelve autos brought refugees from Inkisi and Madimba, led by Antoine Saintraint, 33, the civil administrator of the Madimba district. Huddled exhaustedly over a sandwich, he recounted how his wife and some 30 other women had fled to a Roman Catholic convent for protection. Soldiers broke in and raped them all, except for three who were spared because of obvious pregnancy. Was his wife among those raped? "Some things are better left unsaid," Saintraint said grimly...