Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gathered nicknames-the Little Flower, Butch, The Hat, the Little King. He posed for photographs in gas masks, baseball caps, catcher's masks, chef's caps and fireman's hats. During campaign speeches, he used his horn-rimmed spectacles as sword, scepter and backscratcher; he spat on imaginary apples, kicked imaginary footballs and screeched vulgarly at his enemies. He started a weekly radio program, on which he told housewives how to cook spaghetti, and, during the 1945 newspaper strike, read comics to their offspring...
...sexy books in Karachi. "In one dismal hotel," he recalled, "the hall porter was reading Jurgen. The night clerk was reading Lady Chatterley's Lover and the manager was reading Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. The food was bad, too, but I never found out what the chef had on his mind." A Karachi professor asked another U.S. visitor to send him Forever Amber. "I'm interested," he said, "because I have a beautiful young daughter...
...described by a recent victim: five to 15 hours of interrogation daily; during questioning prisoner sits under blinding arc lamps, hands flat on table; food is two thin slices of bread, jug of hot water daily, elaborately served by white-capped chef with retinue...
...shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...Questions? In Liverpool, England, Chef Paul Greenburge was perfectly frank with the bobbies about why he had kidnaped a 17-year-old girl and lived with her for a year: "She is a very pretty girl and I was fed up with my wife...