Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were 15 in all, four officers and eleven enlisted men, on the first casualty list issued by the Army. The men were lost in the crash of a transport en route to Korea...
They could: by 4:30 that afternoon, the pumps were assembled, en route to the carrier. Then work halted again, and United Electrical Workers went back to their picket lines...
...guest last week could choose from a menu of caviar, turtle soup, sole bonne femme, roast duck with wine sauce and pineapple, whole baby chickens fried in butter with mushrooms, asparagus in butter sauce, feathery soufflés aflame with brandy, strawberries, peaches in kirsch, crêpes suzette en liqueurs, petits fours. "And," said Mario, "you can have it all if you like." To encourage the dollar tourist trade, Britain's government had lifted the wartime limit of five shillings (70? U.S.) per meal...
...Mexican press took a fine, impartial stand, applauding the government's expulsion order, but deploring the loss of a good shortstop. La Prensa's sport editor philosophically pointed out that, after all, everyone knows that Mexican umpires walk out on the field with "Jesús en la boca" (i.e., with a prayer on their lips...
...Dare was worrying about the spaceship Kingfisher en route to Venus, and Patrolman 49 was off to nab a gang of bank robbers. Seth and Shorty, out Texas way, were hard at work saving the cattle from a tribe of rustling redskins. A handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...