Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare, dimly lit squadron headquarters at Hanoi's Bach Mai Airfield, the lieutenant colonel pulled on his overalls and told us: "The operation tonight is called Polo. The drop planes are Banjo One, Two, Three, and so on. Ours is the command plane, but we will also carry a load of 60 parachute flares to drop if the Viet Minh attacks and our comrades on the ground need light for shooting. Our radio identification is Luciole...
...accepted the position on the condition that he be allowed to do it without pay. The Glee Club was a semi-social club which held concerts mainly because of the dances that followed and which performed with the aid of the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs...
Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Ethel Merman in Never Follow a Banjo...
...team hit a homer. Nowadays, though "I still clown with my boys," Grimm no longer mugs for the fans. "It isn't that I've gone dignified," he explains. "It's strictly age" (54). "Jolly Cholly," who prides himself in being "the only left-handed banjo player in the majors," wisely refuses to pick Milwaukee for the pennant, but his banjo is plunking away on an old tune this week: Happy Days Are Here Again...
...found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls: "I can't count the number of dark closets Ros locked...