Word: dais
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over war-racked Viet Nam, from secure Saigon to tiny towns barely out of sound of Red gunfire, stevedores, coolies, wealthy rice merchants and civil servants jammed into polling places last week and in local elections gave Emperor Bao Dai's anti-Communist government a thumping vote of confidence. The Reds tried to scare off the voters with Sten guns; in one region they even kidnaped five candidates. But 80% of the registered voters turned out, and in some cases waited two and three hours to vote in Viet Nam's first elections...
...were forced to retreat across the paddies under withering machine-gun and mortar fire. In their second attack, the legionnaires got in among them with bayonets and grenades. The fight went on behind the cactus hedges and straw huts, with fanatical young Communists in brown homespun clothing shouting "La dai" (Come and get us). The legionnaires got them. On the river, naval units sank six barges full of Viet Minh soldiers and equipment. Four-star General Raoul Sa-lan, who has been consistently chipper, even on the eve of past setbacks, boasted: "The future of our military actions...
...Albany, Governor Tom Dewey announced that he was air-expressing several hundred smallmouth bass fingerlings to Emperor Boo Dai of Viet Nam, Indo-China. On his journey to the far Pacific last year, the governor explained, he found that the Emperor had never fished for bass, so Dewey had promised to send enough to stock some native streams...
...graceful gesture to the Japanese, the Far East headquarters have now been moved out of the Dai Ichi Building, seven year symbol of U.S. prestige and domination, to a group of long, buff-colored buildings on Tokyo's outskirts, which once housed the Japanese War Ministry...
...been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first. Within hours of his accession, the new Premier announced his policy: "Je fais...