Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand at bringing an end to the costly nine-year-old jungle war against Communist guerrillas. It issued a "new and final" amnesty offer to the 1,800 terrorists (down from 8,000) still left and, just to make sure everyone gets the message, will drop no less than 12 million leaflets from R.A.F. planes. Terms: no persecution of terrorists who surrender, regardless of their past crimes; restoration of civil rights to those who forswear Communism; free repatriation to Red China of those who do not. The offer holds good until Dec. 31, and after that the war will...
...cooperative, which includes talking to people. It's so easy to listen to the sound of your own voice-like now. But I know that under different circumstances you wouldn't listen to me. You'd be talking to me with a nice, healthy 'Drop dead' mixed in with the conversation here and there." Said Hyams: "Drop dead." Replied Brando: "Turn blue...
...three papers, the World-Telegram is the only one hit hard enough by the circulation drop to have cut its advertising rates this summer; its sales fell 19%. compared with 16.2% for the Journal-American and 18.2% for the tabloid Post (circ. 350,814). The World-Telly has brightened its own financial section with new features, e.g., columns on Wall Street gossip, market letters and mutual funds, and switched Charles G. Haskell from his job as assistant managing editor, to run the business and financial pages. A spokesman denied that the changes were inspired by the Journal's plans...
...save an estimated $150,000 in the armed forces economy drive (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the U.S. Air Force decided to drop all foreign language courses for the 20,000 children now enrolled in U.S. Air Force schools in Europe and the Middle East. Air Force elementary and high schools will dismiss 119 native teachers whose purpose was to reduce the isolation of American youngsters living abroad. Commented Le Monde of Paris: "It seems a bit astonishing that the United States, which admits the necessity of extending into the cultural domain cooperation among allied countries in NATO, suppresses...
FANCY DECANTERS, introduced by liquor companies to boost Christmastime sales, are on the way out. National Distillers, second-ranking U.S. liquor maker (Old Grand-Dad, Old Crow, etc.) will drop its holiday deluge of decanters this winter, figures sales increase is not worth the extra cost of molding, shipping, distributing the fanciful bottles...