Word: placards
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...chairman called a rare meeting, inviting all interested parties - via the trusted local method, a placard posted on the bus stop - to gather on a Saturday morning at the home of the chairman. Five people showed up. But their proposed solution to the potholed road - taking up a collection to fund repairs - will probably meet the same fate as Igor Petrovich's plans for the pond...
...airport wasn't about long lines, delays, lost luggage or missed connections. Instead, the protesters - who had demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week - were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they fly. A placard from one activist at Heathrow expressed it thus: "You Fly, They...
...postcard, like the posters it describes, goes from silly to serious. Considering that this is the grim reality, it’s difficult to justify the absence of such campaigns in the U.S., particularly on grounds as trivial as taste. It’s not just that, as one placard of a lemon sporting a condom declares, “Safely makes fun!” It’s that condoms are indeed, as a particularly punny ad featuring them on potatoes says, “Überlebensmittel”: something that goes over (über) groceries...
...only sign that Harriet Miers was supposed to testify in front of Congress on Thursday was literally that - a sign, a paper placard bearing her name. Behind it sat an empty water cup. Behind that, an even emptier chair...
...eager seniors from their House to become “upper” Upper Halls. These get to have their own personal stein mug hanging on a numbered peg in the Pub, and their names added to a kind of “Upper Hall of Fame” placard. HoCos singled out the most enthusiastic seniors with methods ranging from an application process to nominations, voting, and appointments. Kirkland HoCo Parliamentarian Matt Drazba ’08 says the Kirkland apps featured questions such as “If you had to name your iPod, what would you name...