Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand of whom have fought there, most of whom know it only remotely through a haze of symbols-Terry and the Pirates, The Road to Mandalay, Errol Flynn striding triumphant down the Burma Road. By the light of the flames that roared up over Indo-China, the dark and distant land of Burma has become visible. Can Burma defend its 1,000-mile Red China frontier by itself? Can Burma be saved? Will it get help-or accept...
...Gina-Hughes is not talking) was all a terrible mistake. Gina's story: Hughes sent a T.W.A. plane to Italy, flew her to Hollywood. At the airport she was met by Hughes agents, who shooed reporters away, bundled her into a limousine, hurried her off to "a hotel distant from the center of the city . . . I discovered I was practically locked in the hotel, unable to get in touch with anyone." All day she endured English lessons, '"orrible RKO peectures," rehearsals for her screen test, and the importuning of lawyers, who wanted her to sign a contract written...
Marriage Penalty. All workers' mail is censored, and love letters are frequently destroyed. If, by any chance, a romance should flower under these adverse conditions, company officials usually do not allow the newlyweds to live together, may even transfer one spouse to a distant factory. The pay of both is often reduced "because of decrease in efficiency...
...cities of offshore oil grow out into the Gulf, they will tend to lose social contact with the distant shore. This is a serious morale problem, and the oil com panies are worried about it. One answer might be airplane or helicopter service to fly the men to their jobs; already some of the rigs have heliports on them...
...known throughout the world as Dienbienphu. A few weeks later, he stood on the bridge of a French flagship while the commanding officer ordered the landing barges away in the first phase of Operation Atlante (TIME, Feb.1). Mecklin also made quick flights to Seno and Luang Prabang to cover distant phases of the war close up. "Hardly a week goes by," he says, "that you don't do some flying, nearly always in a plane that needed an overhaul 200 hours ago, with a pilot who hasn't had any sleep for days and keeps himself in shape...