Word: errand
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...night last week strode 15 masked men in strict military order. A year ago, the sight of such gunmen meant that some one had been singled out for death as a collaborator with the British. But this time the EOKA men proved to be bound on a singularly innocent errand. Invading the village coffee shop, they ordered its customers to face the wall, then searched their pockets for British cigarettes...
Applicant McNair had an impressive career behind him. After starting out as an errand boy, he was, when he retired in 1955, general and political secretary of the Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced...
...minutes until a quorum is gathered, and discuss lunches with the Dean, the formation of the Motorscooter Club, and whether or not a certain member should be allowed to change his vote. Frequently, Council members themselves realize that they have little purpose, and ask agonizingly, "are we just the errand boys of Dean Watson...
...southern Algerian garrison town of Colomb-Béchar one morning last week crept a strange train on an expensive errand. Its locomotive, heavily armored, was preceded by six freight cars loaded with sandbags. Its average speed on its way to Ain-Sefra, another garrison town 170 miles to the northeast, was a hesitant 13 m.p.h. Whenever it reached a bridge, invariably a bridge thrown up temporarily by French Army engineers-it slowed down to a walk...
...along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand girl, is a dispensable part in a story that Forester correctly conceived as all-male. The Pride's real passion would far better have aimed solely at the conquest of Avila; Operation Sophia is pointless reconnaissance...