Word: wheeling
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...mark when I met Brezhnev while working on President de Gaulle's visit to Moscow in June 1966. For a long time after World War II, De Gaulle was portrayed by students at the Institute of International Relations as a chicken-brained cog in the military wheel, with pompous ambitions and fascistic dictatorial tendencies. Top political people regularly disparaged him, calling him a "long-nosed frog's legs." But now he was paying an official visit to Moscow, and I was asked to help in preparations...
...last thing Robert Labollita remembers about the night of May 17, 1983, is driving from a restaurant toward his home in Dumont, N.J. The next morning Labollita found himself in a hospital in nearby Englewood. He had fallen asleep at the wheel, flipped his car and, in the resulting crash, knocked out a 4-in. segment of his upper arm bone, the humerus. The lower part of his arm dangled precariously from torn muscle and tendons. Labollita, now 27, recalls, "When I came to, they had already performed emergency surgery to remove the remaining pieces of bone." There...
ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin...
...true that the Glee Club planned initially to have their annual party in the Junior Common Room of Lowell House. That room is not accessible to a student in a wheel chair. Clearly the officers of the Glee Club did not, in there inexperience, appreciate how strongly a student so confined detested being carried into a party...
...Bhopal residents. Even as policemen bearing megaphones cried, "No danger, no danger!" tens of thousands of people left town in a hurry. Dressed in their best clothes, they packed belongings, withdrew money from banks and crowded into, and often on top of, buses and trains. Bicycles, bullock carts, three-wheel scooters and rickshas clogged the streets. With the detoxification still nearly 36 hours away, an estimated 200,000 of the city's 672,000 residents had fled...