Word: stools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Battle Scar. In his olive-drab headquarters tent on the Plain of Jars, wearing a T shirt, a pair of Levi's and rubber bath shoes, Kong Le perches on a stool morosely studying a map beneath the light of a swaying hurricane lamp. The picture is discouraging: the Pathet Lao are advancing in the Vang Vieng area, 13 neutralist soldiers are missing after an action at Ban Boua, a 100-truck Red supply convoy from North Viet Nam arrived at the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay. At such news, Kong Le is apt to wince...
Infuriated, a burly ex-cop dragged Negro Memphis Norman, 21, off his stool, slugged him to the floor. As the Negro lay there, the white man kicked him in the face, kicked him again and again and again. Later, Norman was sent to a hospital-and charged with disturbing the peace...
...dressed in a black oilcloth shift, set up an ironing board that had silver bells hanging from it and began to iron any number of medium-sized replicas of the Washington Monument. No one could miss the symbolism of that. The drama critic of the Washington Post splintered the stool he was perched on and crashed to the ground...
...Charlene was in poor health recently. A few years ago, she suffered a painful leg injury while skiing in Vermont. At first she attended parties while swinging gaily between crutches. But the leg kept giving her trouble. Last year it buckled beneath her while she was standing on a stool changing a light bulb. She fell to the floor, suffered a broken nose and a concussion. From then on, she was plagued with blinding headaches...
...Rome, and told De Sica to change the film or drop the name of Abby Mann from the screen credits. Last week, improbable as it may seem, De Sica completed his second week of all-night-every-night revision of the film, while Abby Mann sat on a stool beside...