Word: lampposts
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...that inhabit the same body. The one is very soft and sentimental and indecisive. The other is hard, cruel and decisive. The first weeps at the death of a canary; the second cries that 'there will be no peace in the land until a body hangs from every lamppost...
...hooligans in the making" and suggested that the government ought to be worried. So far there are no signs of incipient revolt, and Correspondent Scott found the atmosphere in Algiers one of phlegmatic indolence rather than seething resentment. Graffiti are rare in a secret-police state, but on one lamppost, he noted, had been scribbled the lament "Triste Algerie...
Last week, three days before the wedding was to take place, Marta underwent another, even more trying proof. Three masked women seized her at her home, sheared off her dark brown hair, tied her to a lamppost and poured tar over her head. For half an hour, until she was released, Marta slumped against the post while a band of 80 women shouted, "Soldier lover! Soldier lover!" A photographer, alerted in advance by local I.R.A. members, recorded the barbarous scene for the front pages of the world. Two other Catholic girls in Derry suffered similar treatment last week...
...rubbed along doing magazine illustrations, and at one time had almost given up serious painting when, in 1915, he began to do etchings. An impressive example, presented at the Whitney, is a scene viewed from above, with a man walking a deserted city street, the shadow of a lamppost striking across his own lonely shadow. All fussy detail is suppressed; there is only stark image and a mood...
...Lamppost. The slight, urbane colonel, who comes from a family of landowners, trained at U.S. Army schools in Panama and the U.S. before serving as Bolivian military attaché in Washington, D.C. He has a reputation for being cool under fire. One day in 1966, when Banzer was Minister of Education in the late René Barrientos' government, an angry crowd of teachers demonstrated outside his office. "String up Banzer!" they shouted. Suddenly Banzer appeared in their midst. "I will be waiting near the lamppost to see who is the brave one who is going to hang...