Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second-floor study of Saigon's yellow stucco Freedom Palace, South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem was absorbed in a biography of George Washington, the gift of a recent U.S. visitor. At the sudden roar of an airplane engine, he looked up, hurried out to the balcony in time to see a fighter plane swooping toward him through the early morning overcast...
...inside Communist territory. There, a small group determined to flee to the West, despite the Wall, which in their area consists of a double barbed-wire fence patrolled by tommy-gun-toting guards. Escape seemed impossible until one of the villagers had an idea: Why not go underground? A stucco house stood empty only 20 ft. from the wire. Soon shovels were biting through the cellar wall and into the sandy soil. The digging was not difficult, but only one man at a time could work at the head of the narrow tunnel; employing the classic technique of captured British...
...themselves, and his editors put it on the wire. The Berlin city government and the local press angrily denounced "this tragic indiscretion,'' which, they argued, made it impossible for others to use the tunnel. But the U.P.I, pointed out that Communist Vopos swarmed in and occupied the stucco house three hours before their story of "the tunnel was distributed...
Tshombe left his pink and white stucco residence to tour the shattered wards of Prince Leopold Hospital, stopping to offer sympathy and thanks to the wounded. Said he: "Your wounds are not in vain." Then he made his last-ditch tom-tom appeal to his warriors: "Poisoned arrows will shower on our opponents; each onusien [U.N. soldier] will be a corpse...
Rolling up on schedule at the pink stucco bus depot in McComb, Miss. (pop. 15,500), a Greyhound discharged six Negro passengers. While a crowd of some 600 whites pushed against police cordons, the Negroes walked into the terminal's white waiting room, sat for three minutes while their baggage was unloaded. It was the first time a public facility had been integrated in Mississippi...