Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked into the building. "Where do I go to sign up?" I asked one woman who was sitting at the front of the line eating a sandwich. She laughed. "I've been here since 3:30," she said, adding that as far as she knew there were no places left...
...China as perhaps the best hope for thwarting the Soviets.) It matters not. '"Radish communists,"' he reminds us, "red on the outside but white on the inside, taste as good to the Soviets as red tomatoes." This from the man who once described South America as a "Red sandwich"--Cuba and Chile (then under Allende) the slices of bread and one need not wonder who is waiting to gobble up the rest...
...turns, smiles for a photograph, offers half her sandwich to a reporter, and heads for the old age home across town...
...they owned, stuffed in plastic bags and pillowcases. Some shied away from the military trucks and soldiers at first; they had been told back home that they would be mistreated in the U.S. But when a smiling airman in an Air Force van tossed out bags each containing a sandwich, a hardboiled egg, a carton of milk and an apple, the newcomers were delighted. Some of the children had never seen an apple before...
...with telephoned pleas for capitulation. Implored Lovera, in one such call: "This is not a legal problem. This is a human problem that should be resolved in concordance with the law of God to preserve human life. We hostages are what is called in Caracas the ham in the sandwich...