Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding about the pitiful ruins and damp, weedy shambles of recaptured Manila, G.I. jeep drivers used to refer to the Kweezon Bridge, Kweezon Boulevard, etc. However they mangled the name, sharp, dapper, bantam-sized Manuel Luis Quezon, (rhymes with stays on), late President of the Commonwealth, left his mark on the Philippines...
...Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists," and their program to save France was "Lopeo-therapy"; it called for the elimination olf poverty after 10 p.m., the rebuilding of Paris in the country because it lacks air; the nationalization of brothels. Extremists want to extend the Boulevard St. Michel to the sea, with a comfort station every 50 yards...
...Army had arranged a big show. Chicago turned out, some 1,000,000 strong, on a cold and windy morning. They gathered along streets of the Loop to watch the President's party drive to Michigan Boulevard's Blackstone Hotel. There were some cheers as smiling Harry Truman's car passed. For the car behind his, carrying General Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, there were prolonged huzzahs...
Then, for two hours and 45 minutes the President, his wife and daughter stood stiffly in the cold as tanks, armored cars, sleek green guns and some 14,000 soldiers passed his reviewing stand on Michigan Boulevard...
Until John Lewis burst onto the scene, the Miami council meeting had followed the familiar, doldrum-ridden pattern. The members-whose ages average 63-met only until noon, then sunned themselves (fully clothed) on the roof garden or the second-floor veranda, where they watched Biscayne Boulevard's traffic, talked about old times, and cursed C.I.O...