Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disarmament Pact. In Chicago, Mrs. Isabelle Veil said she did not want to "take any more chances," insisted on a divorce agreement which provided that the revolver her husband had once brandished at her was to be dismantled, and the parts divided between them...
...heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother: "It's hard having two mothers. I love you, and I love Aminah...
...dawn air is heavy and still; a typhoon is expected. From the citadel high over Moncay, the réveil sounds. Men of the French Foreign Legion tumble out of bed muttering in French, German, all the languages of Europe. Down in the dark valley across the shallow, gravelly Song Kalong River, dividing line between Indo-China and Red China, there is also a stirring. Guards in new olive-green uniforms are running up a red flag with one big white star in the corner and four small stars. They are Chinese Communist soldiers, three battalions of them...
...Washington cocktail party, Perle Mesta, U.S. Minister to Luxembourg, and Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of the French ambassador, arrived in identical hats (an elephant-grey number embellished with shell pearls and sequin-dotted veil). The two ladies, both schooled in diplomacy, merely spoke politely...
...Sartoris family represents the past-former aristocrats who lose themselves in gentility, alcohol, rhetoric and madness. The Snopes family symbolizes the future; they are coldly, and crudely, on the make. The process of degeneration hits bottom when a third type appears: people who use the Sartoris pretensions to veil the Snopes greed...