Word: chums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trujillo as Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo calls his 24-year tyranny over the Dominican Republic, no chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot...
...minutes of it, as he was pushing his way through the crowd, a sailor who had been one of his most persistent hecklers offered him a box of throat lozenges. " 'Ere, guv'nor," he said. " 'Ave one. I bet yer need it after that." "Thanks, chum," replied the Rev. Donald Soper, president of the Methodist Church in Britain...
...Toronto, radio station CHUM daringly dropped all its western serials, quiz programs and disk jockeys, to concentrate on "melodic" music and news. Explained Program Director Mrs. Leigh Lee: "We think there is a big audience that is sick to death of too much disk-jockey chatter. No one cares a damn that Eddie Fisher was wearing pajamas when he cut this disk, or that Hugo Winterhalter broke three fingers while conducting a number. By playing purely music we may bring back that lost audience...
...described as twice the size of a man, has green blood, and rules the planet Aphrodite. Gog is an aluminum, electronically controlled mechanical slave with five arms. He moves about on a treadmill like a tank, and, with a chum named Magog, works with atomic material...
Sometimes she is seen strolling calmly down a corridor with a hippopotamus on a leash. Sometimes she is roasting an ox in her room, or hanging a teacher ("Well, that's O.K.-now for old 'Stinks' "), or merely stretching a chum out on a medieval rack. On nature walks, she likes to collect poisonous mushrooms ("Chuck those out-they're harmless"), would hardly ever go boating without making at least one lowerclassman walk the plank. Faced with a faculty frown ("Hand up the girl who burnt down the East Wing last night"), she can look angelic...