Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt took grim care to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico-born Moscoso. No arrival time was published in the press; inflammatory wall scribblings were quickly erased. The complement of 80 national guardsmen stationed along the superhighway from the airport to the capital was reinforced by 1,200 troops. Sirens screaming, 20 police cars escorted Moscoso to the embassy residence...
Most luxurious refinement of the fortress bedroom-especially in sunny climates-is the garden bathroom, which has one glass wall. For some degree of privacy, the garden or patio outside is surrounded by a wall or hedge, is usually accessible only through the bathroom. Thus, while shaving or showering, the occupant can sunbathe, sing with the birds and watch the grass grow. Says one dismayed Los Angeles matron: "Using a bathroom like that is like being caught out in the middle of a prairie...
...Wall Street it was a week of excitement-and irony. Just as the Dow-Jones industrial average burst through the magic 700 mark (only a decade ago, the average stood at 250), the 1961 bull and its keepers came under the most embarrassing scrutiny the U.S. stock market has faced in more than 20 years...
...keepers themselves. For the second time in two months, New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston warned against "unwise speculation" in low-priced shares and new issues-speculation partly fueled by the highest level of market loans ($5.2 billion) since the beginning of the Great Depression. More worrisome for Wall Street was the announcement by a House of Representatives subcommittee that it planned to investigate both SEC and stock-exchange practices to decide whether investors need to be protected with tighter security laws. On top of that, SEC announced a full-scale probe of the American Stock Exchange, the first...
...bring freedom to North America. Five years later, he returned a hero, and Adrienne was so overcome that she fainted at their reunion. Scarcely pausing to bring her round, he eagerly went into politics, called for a constitutional monarchy, and hung the U.S. Bill of Rights on his wall with an empty frame beside it, explaining to visitors: "It is intended to contain a similar document for France." On July 11, 1789, La Fayette tried to fill the frame by presenting to the States-General his radical Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens. But the Revolution quickly...