Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...repeatedly reported him dead ever since September, when rebel tanks commanded by Strongman Abdullah Sallal ringed the palace in San'a and opened fire at point-blank range. But the royal troops held out until the next day, when the Imam darted through a breach in the wall. A woman in a nearby house helped him replace his fancy clothes with a common soldier's khaki tunic, and Badr safely made his way to neighboring Saudi Arabia...
...Chicago, Charlene Scanland was primping in front of the bathroom mirror one morning when a hoarse voice came out of the medicine cabinet saying: "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?" Replied Charlene, without pausing to analyze the situation: "You are." Later, the owner of the mystery voice came around to find out who had answered the query so sweetly. He was a handsome bachelor who lived in the next apartment, but the story had no romantic ending for Charlene: he married her roommate instead...
...Library was designed by hitectural firm of Hugh Stubbins sociates, the Cambridge designers lanned the Loeb Drama Center. The building will have six levels above ground and two below, with underground storage stacks extending beyond the vertical wall limits of the central library...
With their backs against the wall, the desperate Coast Guard threw caution to the winds in the last race, but could not quite outscore Harvard. The academy had boats in first, second, and third places during the first leg of the race. Coming around the weather mark, however, the four Crimson dinghies moved into second through sixth positions. The race and the championship were clinched when one of the Cadet dinghies was disqualified for a rule infraction...
...temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory, and it will be 40 pages before the reader gets his vicarious taste of Scotch...