Word: stalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Papandreou himself appeared in Parliament exactly once: to shout a triumphant ohi (no) when his name was called in the roll on the vote of confidence, then stalk out dramatically, leaving the chamber behind in cacaphonic chaos. To win his majority, since 24 Center Union Deputies backed Novas, Papandreou needed, and got, the support of 22 EDA (proCommunist) deputies, to add to the 145 votes of Center Unionists who had remained loyally behind their stubborn old leader. Young King Constantine was on the spot, and he had no choice but to talk things over with Papandreou next day. After...
Evidence of war readiness abounds: barbed wire festoons the pink and yellow fronts of government office buildings; militiamen stalk the streets with fixed bayonets and grenades at their belts; as part of the effort to deceive U.S. pilots, bicycle handlebars and wheel rims are painted camouflage green, and farmers wear banana branches in their hats. Even pigs on the way to market are artfully shrouded in leaf-bedecked nets. Reportedly, more than 300,000 women and children have been evacuated from Hanoi in preparation for aerial attack, but after seeing the bombed-out bridges downcountry, many have filtered back into...
...learned his lesson, Liston won't be in a frantic hurry to dispose of Clay tonight. He will stalk his man, trying to conserve his energy for the fifteen-round cat and mouse game, and wait patiently for the opportunity to break Clay in half with one swipe of his left hand...
...boating things that sank between the silica columns when they died. Those things may have been plants or animals or something in between. Whatever they were, they resembled small stars, or spheres with smaller spheres sticking to their outside walls. The most elaborate form had a bulbous base, a stalk and a ribbed cap. Its discoverers do not know whether it was sedentary like a mushroom or swam like a miniature jellyfish...
...Linda and Luci captivate the City of Light by doing the Watusi before the Congolese Embassy. Johnson introduces himself at a state dinner in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles by saying "I am the man who accompanied the Watusi to Paris." Seventeen indignant representatives of nationalistic African countries stalk...