Word: columns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting for our country,' a Viet Minh officer told us, 'and there are things worse than that.' Some of the Viets were laughing, but there was no attempt to mistreat us. The Viets said in French for our doctors, orderlies and walking wounded to form column, and they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between...
Last week, in the letters column of the Daily Telegraph and elsewhere, a chorus of puzzled listeners cited examples of peculiar BBC enunciation, which, taken together, added up to a handy glossary of current radio speech in Britain. Samples: Miss Treeden-Britain's Foreign Secretary...
Father Confessor. There is little doubt that Sokolsky, whose column is carried by an estimated 300 papers, has great influence with some members of the McCarthy committee and its staff. Sokolsky and McCarthy are old friends, dating back to around 1950 when McCarthy was a novice in the field of anti-Communism and sought advice from such "specialists" as Sokolsky. It was Sokolsky, his friends say, who brought Cohn and Schine to the attention of McCarthy and got them their jobs with the subcommittee. Ever since, Cohn has acknowledged his deep respect for Sokolsky, considers him a father-confessor available...
...language newspapers, later became a special correspondent, whose reports appeared in U.S. and British dailies (e.g., St. Louis Post-Dispatch, London Daily Express). At the same time he was also paid by the Chinese government to develop its information service. Back in the U.S., in 1935 he began a column of political punditry in the New York Herald Tribune, switched to the Sun and later to the Hearst chain. While writing his column, he also did a weekly radio broadcast for the National Association of Manufacturers. In addition he toured the U.S., writing and making, peeches as an "industrial consultant...
...into the "green hell" of the Sierra Parima between Venezuela and Brazil. That vast sea of vegetation, never before crossed by a white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...