Word: lamppost
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...parties, the Colorados (Reds) and the Blancos (Whites)* fought it out again at peaceful elections last week, and the neat, sun-warmed little democracy of Uruguay looked as though it had been bombed by a fleet of flying saucers loaded with bingo cards. Every tree, pavement, building, car and lamppost wore a number. Uruguayans do not mind fracturing freely within their traditional parties, and 277 splinter factions were competing for office. Out of deference to the sanity of the Uruguayan voters, they all used numbers instead of names, and politicking became largely a matter of fixing the numbers in voters...
...British government made public the report of a four-man commission appointed to study the Guiana crisis. Its conclusion: "Conditions for sound constitutional advance do not exist in British Guiana today." The report was harshly candid (said the Manchester Guardian: "To read it is like walking into a lamppost in the fog"), and argued that the colony's dominant political organization, the Red-ridden People's Progressive Party, was bent on destroying the constitution after first using its privileges to win unlimited one-party rule. For their activities protesting London's steps against the P.P.P., its leader...
...provide free gloves for garbagemen). In 1953, still an independent, he ran for mayor of São Paulo, won in a two-to-one landslide. Adhemar de Barros, who had backed another candidate, brushed off Jânio's mayoralty victory: "The people wanted a change ... A lamppost could have...
...illustrate the problem, the museum relaxed its standing rule against exhibiting anything of bad design, chose for its horrible example a picture of a street corner at 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue, near its own building. On or beneath one overburdened lamppost are six different signs (see cut) telling twelve different messages in ten letter styles and 21 sizes. Aside from the fact that this jumble is artistically jarring, the museum notes also that it all takes too long to read: a minimum of almost a minute...
...Moreau? We had a terrible row. About pacifism . . . He ended up by almost strangling me . . . Here, look at his last letter . . . Just imagine, he pinned me against a lamppost, grabbed me by the throat, while he shouted dramatically, 'I'll have you, Elisabeth, or I'll kill you!' . . . I said to him, 'Strangle me, but don't kiss...