Word: waterloo
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...past ten years at West Junior High School in Waterloo, Iowa, Alice Margaret Hayes, 67, has been reading the story Little Brown Koko and the Preacher's Watermelon to her speech and drama class. When black students began busing to the school three years ago, Mrs. Hayes was always careful to ask if any objected, recognizing the stereotype that the title implies...
...other way. By an unexpectedly wide margin of 356 votes to 244, Britain agreed in principle to join the European Economic Community effective Jan. 1, 1973. The decision may not have been quite on a par with the signing of Magna Carta, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, or Waterloo, as some claimed, but it did promise to change the shape and character of Europe-and Europe's role in the world...
...unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year-old Hirohito and his demure Empress flew on to Paris, where 50 years ago, as Crown Prince, he spent what he remembers as some of the happiest, freest days...
...soul-expanding event portrayed in Michael Wadleigh's film documentary. Well and good. But amid the chaos of Max Yasgur's farm, Cook seems a little like Stendhal's young soldier, who doesn't realize that he's in the battle of Waterloo because he perceives it as only a scattering of minor incidents. Likewise, Cook inadvertently stumbles upon a critical subject: the contrast and relationship of reality to myth. If Woodstock ever becomes a milestone in a social or spiritual revolution, it will not be because of its soggy realities, but because...
...Gerald Clarke's Essay charges Marshal Ney with responsibility for Napoleon's debacle at Waterloo. Surely the blame should go to the dilatory and unfortunate Marshal Grouchy for his failure to intercept Blücher's Prussians, and not to the intrepid Ney, who on the contrary, attacked Wellington two hours ahead of time...