Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent schedule. If the Japs had any lingering doubt, that was dispelled three days later when a B-29 group roared northward to hit Tokyo again, while an India-based mission of Superforts carried out a simultaneous attack on railway yards in Thailand's capital, Bangkok...
When the King of Siam invited Anna to Bangkok, the royal summons read: "And we hope that in doing your education on us and on our children (whom English call inhabitants of benighted land) you will do your best endeavor for knowledge of English language, science, and literature, and not for conversion to Christianity. . . . We beg to invite you to our royal palace to do your best endeavorment upon us and our children...
...condensed from Anna's own discursive, old-fashioned writing. It is "75 percent fact, and 25 per cent fiction based on fact." Gilbert & Sullivan King. The King of Siam was a character out of Gilbert & Sullivan - except that when he tortured people, they died. When Anna arrived at Bangkok she met the full force of cold, Oriental impoliteness. She was insulted, neglected, frightened, sneered at, as soon as she was safely in the King's grasp...
...years ago this month, Premier Luang Pitul Songgram sideslipped tiny Thailand into war with Great Britain and the U.S. The excuse: the R.A.F. had bombed Bangkok. The reason: Japan looked like a sure winner...
Recent directives of Thailand's Office of National Culture: 1) tables and chairs should be used when dining; 2) unhappy husbands will please divorce their wives instead of beating them. Last week the battle for culture hammered at a new objective: Bangkok Radio instructed the Thai people to "stop sitting on sidewalks; it is not sanitary and shows a weakness of the mind...