Word: colombo
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...Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned...
...picked stout, fiftyish Miguel Miranda, who learned to take orders long ago as president of the government-controlled Industrial Bank. Out of their positions as head of the Stock Exchange and of the potent Industrial Union (equivalent to the National Association of Manufacturers) went Eustaquio Mendez Delfino and Luis Colombo, whose opposition to Peron's campaign-timed bonus and wage-rise decrees had not been forgiven. Into their places went men who could collaborate, as well as drink, with the Presidentelect...
Major General Claire Chennault, easing along a Chinese dance floor, ranked no higher than any man with a captivating partner, when a chipper, dare-devil-named corporal Christopher Colombo...
Inevitably, high purpose was outvoted by low comedy: the salty songs roared by men away from women. Some are as topical as Tunisia, some such timeless bottle-bellowings as Cristofor Colombo, The Tattooed Lady and The Bastard King of England, all with well-scrubbed lyrics save for the commoner low-voltage expletives...
...rupees-Incidental expenses: plane from Colombo to Bombay, train from Bombay to Delhi. When I hit Delhi I had just 7 rupees left...