Word: billete
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When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...
...first met Bud Collins, who writes for the Boston Globe, at a professional tennis tournament at Longwood last summer. It was the same day that a letter had appeared on the Globe's editorial page. somewhat of a billet-doux to Collins from Mrs. J. D. Garrott. It was a masterpiece of outraged matronhood...
...base, got drunk at a party attended by other servicemen and found himself arrested by a constable. He was taken back to the base and put to bed. Although Meyer was under orders not to leave his barracks, about 5 a.m. he got up and sneaked out of his billet. He showed his identification card to a guard and walked onto the two-mile-long runway...
...downtown Saigon, they launched 26 Soviet-made 122-mm. missiles, whose only warning is a high-pitched whistle. Two missiles smashed into two houses in Gia Long Street and killed eight civilians. Another landed within 200 ft. of the Rex, originally an apartment building and now a U.S. billet. American officers there abandoned their breakfast and threw themselves under tables while Vietnamese waitresses screamed in terror. A fourth round smacked into a bookshop on Tu Do Street, killing two Vietnamese maids; one fell, decapitated, next to the fresh bread she had just bought. The barrage threw Continental Palace Hotel guests...
...tons. When these are completed in four years, work will begin on the next phase-an iron-reduction and steelmaking plant that will be operation al by 1976. The site for the complex will be the southern port of Kaohsiung into which will flow slab and billet for the first stage and, later, iron ore from Australia to produce the finished steel...