Word: beretful
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...kisses a resentful, concerned Mom (Shelley Winters) and leaves their small Brooklyn apartment for even smaller and certainly colder quarters in Greenwich Village. Larry wants to be an actor, and his departure is his first full step into la vie bohème. He dares not put on his beret, however, until he is safely on the subway...
...moment, at least, the war seems far away in Silva Porto, but the enthusiasm for UNITA and Savimbi is everywhere. Last Monday night he appeared at a workers' meeting in Silva Porto's Cine Teatro. Sitting behind a table, dressed in his customary fatigues and beret, he delivered a dazzling two-hour address to the more than 1,000 people who jammed the simple theater...
...Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
...orphans and World President Edward Daly aboard, fired up its engines and took off in darkness. Said Pilot Kenneth Healy later: "It seemed like the time to go." On the five-hour flight to a refueling stopover at Japan's Yokata Air Force Base, Daly, wearing a green beret, helped Stewardess Jan Wollet diaper the orphans...
...rising price of rice rioted for two days against the Chinese population, which forms the bulk of the merchant class and is an easy scapegoat. When 20 of their number were then arrested in a military crackdown, the students seized an airport commander and held him until Premier Long Beret flew over from Phnom-Penh and worked out a mutual release. By week's end the anti-Chinese feeling seemed to be spreading to the capital, where crowds of students gathered on street corners-waiting, as one described it, "for a Chinese face to smash." The rebellious mood could...