Word: burma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan drew his pistol and shot out the lights. Rough times? Guy Martin, 75, who served in Ceylon, Burma and China, shook his head as he inspected a display of modern equipment like infrared binoculars. Said Martin: "We had parachutes and rifles, and that was about it." Adventure? James J. Angleton got into World War II as a private, entered the OSS and soon rose...
...bars, rods and other products. The minimills are in great demand because they can produce steel much more cheaply than traditional plants with huge blast furnaces, which convert raw iron ore and coal into steel. Danieli has put up mills in 27 countries, including the U.S., the Soviet Union, Burma and Venezuela. In fact, the company has helped design, build or equip about half of the more than 250 minimills in the world...
Nuclear disarmement was only one of the many causes Myrdal joined to the benefit of humanity. She worked in social programs in underdeveloped nations and served as the Swedish ambassador to Burma and Nepal...
...What he loved about the life at Ocean View was how everything was of use and that everything was wanted." This Edenic state does not last for long. Wally, still a bachelor, goes off to fly a B-24 in World War II and is reported missing over Burma. Homer and Candy have come to love each other, as well as Wally. The result of their mutual grief and consolation is predictable. But what will they do if Wally is not dead...
...Nicholas). He was the last Viceroy of India, who in 1947 presided over the fade-out of the British raj. He went out of this world at 79 (blown up in 1979 by I.R.A. terrorists while boating in Donegal Bay) as Admiral of the Fleet, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma...