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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discuss stopping the bombing or to pull out," he said, "are just pure, absolute tommyrot and fiction." Taking extraordinary precautions to preserve secrecy in his first talk with Thieu, he not only banished his advisers, but also did without the customary interpreter-Thieu has a good command of English. After 50 minutes, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was called in for a ten-minute briefing on the Paris talks...
...past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations as "Pak, you bastard ..." Once, when Ciccolella stared out a window while the North Korean side was trying to make a point from a chart, North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk admonished him in passable English: "Look at the goddam chart...
This led us to believe that somehow the various numbers listed on the album could be used to derive the proper telephone number. For example, "ten to six" would mean 1026. English telephone numbers consist of an exchange, which gives three letters, and four digits. We felt that the intent of the unhelpful recorded message was to tell us that if the call were placed at the proper time, a more enlightening message might be given. There are several times mentioned on the album: Wednesday 5am, Friday 9 am, Saturday 5:50pm, etc. (Transatlantic time and day changes would have...
...Witnesses would like to see the United States, under the auspices of an organization like the Red Cross, airlift food and supplies to the Biafrans, according to Alan Berman, a graduate student in English and a faculty member at Queens College...
...Cambridge, when the snow is dirty gray on the sidewalks and on the curbs. But in the winter you understood the place. And you can think back to winter, like the time last year on Christmas Eve when the cook at the Bick was getting so many orders for English Muffins that he was refusing to make them. And the yellow-haired lady with no teeth who works behind the counter giving orders to the cook was getting very angry. At one minute after midnight on Christmas Day, she said very loud, "Fuck you, cook," and she walked...