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Word: placards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the bosses!" "Morgenthau withdraw!" The lights were dimmed repeatedly as the chairman tried to restore order. Finally the voting began, and after two ballots and another near-riot, Bob Morgenthau was the convention's choice. Through all the hubbub, Buckley sat impassively under The Bronx's placard. Said he later: "I didn't hear a thing." That evening, Morgenthau delivered a listless acceptance speech to a hall half filled with dead-weary delegates. He spoke with all the enthusiasm of a Georgia sixth-grader reciting the Emancipation Proclamation, and even his ritual invocation of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Lamb Who Won | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE Katharine Cornell, actress L.H.D. Jacques Placard, sea explorer. . Sc.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Jun. 15, 1962 | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...about our groups which demonstrate against him: "Little groups of loudmouths come around the embassy, mostly the same ones over and over. They pay them wages for doing it. One of our embassy employees went out and mingled with the group. Along came a man and handed him a placard and $8 to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1960 | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

Tito: "Do you have a concert?" K.: "Little groups of loudmouths come around the embassy, mostly the same ones, over and over. They pay them wages for doing it. One of our embassy employees went out and mingled with the group. Along came a man and handed him a placard and $8 to hold it. That is moral decline, degeneracy." Tito: "We have the bloodiest of the chetniks to contend with: assassins, people who fought with the Germans against us. They're all here." K.: "All the garbage washed up on these shores, wave upon wave." Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battleground | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...center in Skokie was a crowd of more than 20,000, gathered in caravans, some of which had come from neighboring southern Wisconsin. Scattered through the crowd were homemade signs proclaiming HE'S OUR MAN. or spelling out the candidate's name in separate letters, one per placard: LODGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Great Surprise | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

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