Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rail and highway routes to the free world. Large panels of photographs show facets of life in West Berlin. Motion pictures catch the excitement of recent events: the cheers of welcome to Vice President Lyndon Johnson and to U.S. troop reinforcements; the erection of sections of the 25-mile wall; the flight to the West of one East German soldier when his officers' backs were turned; the Soviet water cannons spouting at jeering West Berliners. Accompanying the display is a recorded commentary by Mayor Brandt on the history of the Berlin crisis...
...darkness. An Indian soldier was hit in the face; he screamed. A Katanga gendarme, hit in the belly, fell from a second-story window, picked himself up, staggered away with his entrails hanging out. The driver of an armored car was decapitated, and his car lunged weirdly into a wall...
...camps could never hold the millions of East Germans who would escape if they could. To deal with this restive mass, Communism's wall at Berlin grew ever higher, ever thicker. Bands of Volkspolizei (people's police) strung more strands of barbed wire atop the concrete blocks to stop the desperate dozens of East Berliners who were still leaping over the parapet to freedom; but to the dismay of officials, four Vopos on a fence-mending detail themselves threw down their tools and took the opportunity to flee west. In front of the wall, Communist workers laid heavy...
...dragons without eyes. When observers protested the omission, Chang pointed out that to give such fierce dragons sight might be dangerous. His critics persisted; Chang gave in and painted eyes on two of the dragons. "At once," the story goes, "the air became filled with thunder and lightning, the wall broke down, and the dragons ascended on clouds to heaven. But the two other dragons who had no eyes remained in their places...
...again and again, while their parents gradually lost their minds. Then last season adults began to notice something called Rocky and His Friends, which was new and actually amusing. Rocky, a squirrel, was uncute enough, but it was one of his friends that particularly attracted attention-a blanket-eared, wall eyed, stupid-looking, oafish moose. This moose-whose mother in a flash of lyricism had named him Bullwinkle-made it so big with the big people that he now has his own show in prime evening time...