Word: amerlean
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...welcoming Arafat could have been in part to outflank his leftist opposition in Iran by demonstrating his solidarity with the Palestinians. That view was supported by Chief of Staff Qarani's assurances that Iran would abide by its agreement with the U.S. not to share its arsenal of Amerlean-supplied planes, missiles and other weapons with any other state. Qarani predicted that foreign military advisers, and perhaps some technicians from the U.S., would soon be invited to return to Iran...
...dance at a Veracruz fiesta. He orchestrated the simple folk melody and noted down its dance steps. Back at Giro's he began to alternate it with his regular fare of rumbas, sambas and congas. Within six weeks Mexico City's socialites, free-spending European expatriates and Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with...
...succeeded by W. W. Atterbury, another member of the thinning company of self-made captains of industry. W. W. Atterbury, however, is no captain, but a general, that title having been formally conferred upon him on the occasion of services which he rendered as chief railroad man for the Amerlean Expeditionary Force in France. Mr. Atterbury's biography, if drawn up by the late Alger, might be entitled, From Apprentice to President. Although he began his formal career as a shop apprentice in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, he is a graduate of Yale (1886), wears a rakish hat, offsets...
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