Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrival of the menarche is the more significant than any birthday, but in the Anglo-Saxon households it is ignored and carefully concealed from general awareness. For six months while I was waiting for my first menstruation I toted a paper bag with diapers and pins in my school satchel. When it finally came, I suffered agonies lest anyone should guess or SMELL it or anything...
...most impregnable Viet Cong strongholds until ARVN troops began a campaign to reoccupy it six months ago. Thieu assured villagers: "Our troops will stay on here now for a thousand years to ensure your security." At an anniversary ceremony for the division, he cut the huge birthday cake with a sword. "We don't use swords to make wars any more," beamed Thieu, "just to cut cake." The division commander, Major General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, thanked the President and urged him "to continue to steer the national boat." It was advice that Thieu is obviously chafing to accept...
Griffin also met with two Catholic priests from North Vietnam and one from South Vietnam. He said he was surprised to learn that about ten per cent of the population of North Vietnam was Catholic. "Christmas is a holiday along with Buddha's birthday," Griffin said...
Averted Arrest. Sadat may have been forced to move more quickly than he intended. He had been planning a double family celebration-his wife's birthday and a daughter's wedding anniversary-for the night the upheaval took place. The party was canceled. That afternoon, TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott spent almost an hour at the presidential mansion and found no atmosphere of impending crisis...
...that she had traveled all the way from Atlanta to lie down in front of cars in a traffic circle. "I was born a rebel and I'll always be a rebel," she croaked, and the crowd cheered with gusto. When she told them it was her 71st birthday, she was rewarded with a thundering chorus of Happy Birthday...