Word: marengo
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...copies of the first edition were printed. The paper includes stories on voter registration activities during Alabama's five-day registration period, an attempt to integrate Tuskegee's white churches, a tear-gassing incident in Marengo and the arrest of a civil-rights leader on embezzlement charges in Selma. A long feature described a sharecropper's strike organized by a "Freedom Labor Union" in Mississippi...
...legend, came Carthaginian Hannibal and his elephants. Climbing the other way, from the beautiful Val d'Aosta, came Caesar's Roman legions intent on conquering tripartite Gaul and planting the legionary eagles on the banks of the Rhine. Nineteen hundred years later, after crushing the Austrians at Marengo, Napoleon and his grenadiers retraced Caesar's path...
...result of Judge Jones's ruling, the ministers were liable for immediate collection of the first $500,000 judgment. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy's one-twelfth interest in a 307-acre Marengo County tract was sold for $4,350. Abernathy's five-year-old Buick sedan was auctioned off for $400, and the cars of two other ministers were attached. All told, the first efforts at collection raised some $6,000. With the judgment effective for at least 10 years, the ministers face two choices: 1) they can sue for recovery from the New York Times...
...capital. Scarpia, chief of the Roman police, became a Communist cop, and his enemies, the Bonapartists, became simply freedom fighters or "subversives." All told, Gutman had to doctor only 25 lines. The underling of Act II who formerly rushed in to announce that Bonaparte had won the battle of Marengo, now cries: "Our tanks were fired upon!" Tosca (Soprano Beverly Sills) hears the screams of her lover, who is being tortured offstage, over the intercom. (Scarpia: "Let's turn up the sound!") Having killed Comrade Scarpia (Baritone William Chapman), Tosca hopes to spring her lover from jail and cries...
...Chef Dione Lucas remains a purist. She calmly refuses the customary TV gimmicks, chats informally with a sprinkling of wit and common sense as she displays her skill with a skillet. Last week she demonstrated paupiettes de veau Fontage and the unexpurgated chicken marengo (two small chickens are browned in sweet butter; a hen lobster is sautéed, then shelled; chickens and lobster are flamed in cognac, sprinkled with an aromatic sauce of tomatoes, mushrooms, shallots, tarragon and dry vermouth, garnished with fried eggs on croutons and slices of truffles). Chef Lucas makes it look easy, but any housewife...