Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Come & Be Free." The Chinese prisoners came in columns of five, and proudly, out of the neutral zone (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The first two men flourished pictures of Chiang Kai-shek and of Sun Yatsen, the founder of China's republic. The tight-drawn ranks bore red, white and blue Nationalist banners, the Stars and Stripes, the pale blue and white of the U.N. Some P.W.s wielded crude, homemade flagstaffs, their jagged points torn from beer cans. A few kept their prison camp basketballs. One clasped a French horn. "Dear anti-Communist comrades," boomed a loudspeaker...
...Rhee, the P.W.s had dealt the Communists "the most resounding ideological defeat in their history." But there was deep sadness in the gayly bedecked station, and the welcome soon turned into a wake. Old men and women shuffled along the platform, showing the P.W.s tiny scraps of paper that bore the names of still-missing sons. "He was in the army," they wailed. "Do you know him? Have you seen him?" There were few replies. The P.W.s, listless now and silent, just nibbled at their cakes and kept to themselves. The old ones turned sorrowing away, to wait...
...cowed by people in high places, Evie is outspoken on her column's cast of characters (the British: "They bore me:" the Italians: "Dull"). She does not pretend to cover Washington society completely, since "I really haven't got time for Congress." Good Business. Evie Gordon makes the rounds of up to two dozen cocktail parties and receptions a week, seldom takes notes but remembers what she sees or hears-and prints it on the theory that liveliness is more important than documented facts. "Rumors persist, though it seems improbable." she wrote recently, "that George Jessel will...
...hard to care much, for even at its best, when its two stars were effectively defiant or hysterical, the play had only a stagy force. For the most part, it was loaded with exposition and limp from reminiscence; nor would the suspicion down that Starcross was no less a bore than he was a fake...
...mile pipeline from Princess, Alta. to Toronto and Montreal. The pipeline will be 200 miles longer than the U.S.'s biggest, Tennessee Gas Transmission's 30-inch line linking Texas and Massachusetts, and nearly 1,000 miles longer than famed Big Inch, first of the big-bore tubes...