Word: chowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists and go off to school in Red China. The Communists offer them everything from free books to free clothes. "And so," says Lin, "parents never see their children again. It is very sad." Last year, under the leadership of Rubber Tycoon Tan Lark-sye and Lien Ying-chow, managing director of Singapore's Overseas Union Bank, the city's merchants and businessmen began raising money for a new university, decided on Lin Yutang as chancellor because of his international prestige. By last week, Nanyang University had 20 million Singapore dollars (about $7,000,000 U.S.). Swarms...
...MONTE B. BROWN (Former Chaplain, U.S. Army, Korea-class of '52) New York City Sir: I am offering, in suitably heroic couplets, a new indoctrination course for basic training in the U.S. Army: The chow is lousy and the beds are hard? You have to pull K.P. and extra guard? The corporal's rude, the sergeant impolite? The captain will not let you out at night? They will not let you have a private phone? It's clear, my boy, you don't know Mr. Cohn. You have a gripe? Don't tell the chaplain...
...hero. His name was taken off the AWOL list, and he was promoted to pfc. for his devotion to duty. His own explanation was not so singleminded, or so simpleminded, as all that. "I got no kicks," said Frenchy. "I had it pretty good. Those guys were bringing me chow, and I didn't stand no reveille...
Short-changed on his fishing, Ike consoled himself with another favorite pastime-cooking. He took full responsibility for the party's meals, noisily clanged the big outdoor dinner bell whenever chow was on. (One day's menu: breakfast-flapjacks and sausage; lunch-potato salad and Ike's special vegetable soup, which takes two days to make; dinner-trout and roasting ears.) In between meals, he loafed around, sometimes worked on a new oil painting-a mountain landscape...
...crazy.") and his singing commercials made his name a California gag. Red Skelton, Bing Crosby and others kidded his commercials, the University of Southern California rooting section spelled out his name at halftime, and soldiers at Santa Ana Camp marched into chow singing "MUNTZ, that's Muntz." And his gross jumped from $150,000 to $1,000,000 a month. Dissatisfied with car design, he put out his own custom-built sports car, still makes 100 a year...