Word: bracings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sultan used to slip from his dull capital of Johore Bharu across the strait to Singapore, where his pursuit of wine, women and song was so uninhibited that annoyed British authorities established a 10 p.m. curfew for the young monarch's own good, and set a brace of policemen on his heels to enforce it. If a car had the temerity to pass him on a Johore highway, the Sultan would improve his marksmanship by shooting its rear tires...
...WARRIORS (242 pp.)-A Glenn Gray-Harcourt, Brace...
...PRIVATE AFFAIR (192 pp.) -Edmund G. Love-Harcourt, Brace...
...FATHERS AND I (253 pp.)-Eric Linklater-Harcourt, Brace...
Lapping up quaint local customs on his round-the-world junket, West Berlin's personable Mayor Willy Brandt, like many another tourist, got himself deco rated with leis on arrival in Honolulu, later received a wide-eyed introduction, from a willing brace of island beauties, to the pasty pleasures of two-finger...