Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marine Corps League honor guard in full uniform marched into the hall carrying American and Marine Corps flags. The sellout crowd of 525 people sang America the Beautiful, then rose and cheered the guest of honor. Proclamations praising him came from the Pennsylvania state senate and house of representatives. Schoolchildren sent their congratulations. Speaker after speaker added encomiums, one of them terming him "the greatest Congressman ever...
...course, inconvenient not to be able to fire a 21-gun salute when a foreign chief of state visits San José. But the Ticos have another way to do the honors: when a distinguished guest is expected, squads of schoolchildren are dispatched to the airport to sing songs of welcome...
...majority of letters are written from sanitariums that Kafka inhabited with restless, despairing frequency during his last years. The eerie, lucent prose quickens into something like paranoia. Kafka fights for sleep: "Enemies everywhere ... Two hundred Prague schoolchildren have been quartered here. A hellish noise, a scourge of humanity." Not quite whining, he painfully records the rise and fall of his temperature, the coughs, the catarrhs, the betrayals in his body, the bats in his soul. "The phantoms of the night," he says, "have tracked me down." Earlier: "The physical illness is only an overflow of the spiritual illness." Kafka...
...supervisor of the Suez Canal project-to trench the 50 miles between the seas. By the time the C.U.C.I. folded in 1889, it had spent $287 million dollars and the lives of some 20,000 Frenchmen and Chinese, Irish and West Indian laborers. The chief killers, as generations of schoolchildren have been told, were malaria and yellow fever...
...supposedly once inhabited by the Transylvanian ghoul. Many of the tourists who climb secret staircases and descend into the dank depths of dungeons wear bags of garlic round their necks-the traditional method of warding off the vampire's bloodsucking kiss. In the spirit of the occasion, local schoolchildren wave their arms like bat wings and bare their budding fangs for visitors' cameras...