Word: bibs
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...Peking delegates fairly gloated. Glaring over the speakers' rostrum at Bush, Iraqi Ambassador Talib El-Shi-bib mockingly suggested that if the U.S. still wanted to save a seat for Chiang Kaishek, "it is very welcome to take him and put him in place of the American delegation." With that, Nationalist Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai stood up, walked to the rostrum and announced that he would "not take part in any further proceedings." Amid sympathetic applause, he then led his five-member delegation out of the hall. It was the most dignified gesture in a tableau that a British...
...road while his mother took in boarders. His Great-Aunt Sis used to tell about the night she took in Jesse James and his partner just before they robbed a bank in Russelville. They left a $10 gold piece under a breakfast plate. As a kid in bib overalls, Warren pitched in and did his share; he picked strawberries for 2? a quart, wormed tobacco for 25? a day, loaded sand onto trucks for road builders...
...elbow. "Your father's a fascist pig!" Myrna wasn't afraid of anything. The way it turned out, my father did not seem at all put out by Myrna's peace button, her Black Panther button, her S.D.S. button, her "Kill the Pigs" button, her bib overalls or her carefully teased blonde Afro wig. He didn't even wince when she accidentally let loose a - and a - over the Chianti, and a Holy -! and a - during the spaghetti. In fact, I could only see the faintest spark behind his Coca-Cola green glasses when she patted...
There have been games of dominoes going on in the courthouse at Eufaw as long as the citizens of Greene County, Ala., can remember, marathon games played by old men in bib overalls and soiled fedoras. "I heard they been playing since the Civil War," said one of the game's regulars. The gossip and the political affairs of the county moved across the table with the domino tiles, yellowed now, like the players' hands, by age and use. But the courthouse game ended last week and with it an era. A new black sheriff and judge were...