Word: billete
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...agents slipping into the capital, with U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as a prime target. In a bold attack on a U.S. military compound, a four-man Red guerrilla squad slipped by night into a barracks in central Viet Nam occupied by 130 American advisers, bombed and burned a billet, wounding a captain. A Kansas corporal opened fire and killed two of the intruders...
Love is blind: he cannot see her indifference. He dashes off a burning billet-doux. But she seems to miss the point. "Your letter," she cheerfully replies, "was well phrased." He rents a room that looks right into hers, makes friends with her family, pops over for dinner daily. But the closer he comes the more distant she be comes. One night at the cinema, overstimulated by Les Nouvelles de Fox Movietone, he manfully attempts to smooch. She brushes him away like a mosquito...
...Penrhyndeudraeth, the philosopher-peer sent Moscow a plea for moderation that prompted Khrushchev's first reaction to the U.S. Cuban blockade, hinting that a summit might be useful. Later, when Moscow backed down. Russell had extravagant praise for Khrushchev's "sanity and magnanimity." Kennedy's first billet-doux from Bertie labeled the blockade "a threat to human survival," and drew a curt snub. Undismayed, the peacemaker of Penrhyndeudraeth churned out more letters...
Stepping down as skipper of the Navy Special Projects Office he launched six years ago was Vice Admiral William Raborn, 56, steely sparkplug of the Polaris missile program. Next billet for "cando" Red Raborn: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Development...
...French armies before Paris. Knowing of the scheme, France devised Plan 17, calling for a two-pronged offensive against the German center that would neatly snip off the German right wing and end the war in a hurry. By the spring of 1914, French officers knew what billet every battalion would occupy when war came...