Word: bons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plunger to explode 50 lbs. of dynamite, the first blast in the construction of Haiti's $21 million Little TVA in the Artibonite Valley (TIME, Jan. 12).* A small boy in the crowd of 2,000, expecting something downright atomic, heard the muffled whoom and muttered, "Pas bon [no good...
Little Tricks. A paunchy, sarcastic bon vivant, Orlando outlived his wife by about 20 years, but his mistress, a Sicilian princess, grew old with him and died only last year at 85. His hearty enjoyment of life showed through even in his speeches. "Oratory," he once explained, "is just like prostitution: you must have little tricks. One of my favorite tricks is to start a sentence and leave it unfinished. Everyone racks his brains and wonders what I was going...
...upper-classmen also controls the indoctrination of freshmen. Although all violent hazing was long ago curtailed by school authorities, some mild vestiges still remain. All freshmen are required to wear beanies until the spring term, when the freshman class is formally recognized and beanies are consumed in a bon-fire...
...breakfasts simply on a boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation's most famed restaurateurs and gourmets gathered to share with the master a simple dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white...
...Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira...