Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When some 300 Buddhists refused to break up a sit-down protest around the national radio station, Saigon police at last cracked down, wielding clubs and wicker shields in their first show of force...
...reports filed by past Fellows at the end of their stay at Harvard. If he had done so, he would have discovered the diversity in courses and experiences which have marked the Nieman program's impact on each participant. For Tony Lewis, there has also been a Tom Wicker of the same paper, whose experience and advice involved sampling widely of all Harvard has to offer. It is simply a misstatement of fact to say that "most of the Fellows use Harvard as a trade school." A little checking, one of the basics expected even of a college journalist, would...
...former Nieman Fellow Tom Wicker of the New York Times said earlier this year in a speech at Columbia University, "It's the reporter's high duty not just to state facts but to convey understanding...
...soul searchers today are 60% non-German, of whom a large proportion are wealthy Jews and Frenchmen, the two groups Wagner professedly cared for least, but who now happily pay a top price of $20 per night. But even they still have to sit on the hard, wicker-backed chairs installed by Richard Wagner. Says Wieland: "Grandfather didn't intend his audience to have fun. The uncomfortable seats stimulate the audience to concentrate, listen and experience greatness...
...York Timesman Tom Wicker, the Washington Post's Eddie Folliard, the New York Herald Tribune's Douglas Kiker-all of whom wrote guarded accounts of the meeting...