Word: ferring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again?" asks the narrator with elaborate seriousness. "If so, then the pig died in vain." In Switzerland, mixed nude skiing ap pears to be the latest kick. France has orgiastic "happenings," a homosexual nightclub, and parachutists with a marked proclivity for drunkenness and rape. German and Dutch students pre fer sadism. England's youth, except for a bully gang of Glasgow girls picketing against free love, apparently derives thrills from its Mods and Rockers, heavy petting, and a corps of pimply-faced boys at the Royal Ballet School...
...Wilkinson personally. But he is a much more dynamic speaker, and he makes full use of his rural Oklahoma accent. He likes to talk to the countryfolk about "Momma" and "muh Dad," ("By gosh," said a farmer recently, "he calls his momma 'Momma.' I'd vote fer him fer no other reason than that!"), and he tosses in many an "Aw shucks" kind of reference to Oklahoma's revered Will Rogers. He claims that he is a close personal friend of Lyndon Johnson's and that therefore, if he is elected, he Can Do More...
French companies have set up a cement factory, two chemical plants and three sugar refineries. Sweden recently finished two dry docks and several meat packing houses, is now building a pulp-processing plant in eastern Siberia. The Netherlands has constructed three fer tilizer plants, and Japan fortnight ago approved a contract for one worth $10 million. Even industries in West Ger any, which has a strict ban on all but cash deals with Russia, have managed to get a few Russian contracts...
...book was based on his wartime experiences. James Bond is a composite of commando and intelligence types Fleming knew. The big gambling scene in Casino Royale was suggested by a wartime encounter in Lisbon, when Fleming sat down opposite the top German agent in Portugal at the chemin de fer table...
...dice, roulette wheels, chemin de fer and blackjack were going full tilt. At one table a gambler toyed with $1,200 worth of chips; hovering over the dice was a Sidney Greenstreet character who, they said, picked up $29,000 at the tables a few weeks ago. Former Light-Heavyweight Champ Joey Maxim was guarding the door. "Can't drink," he mumbled. "I'm watching for hustling broads and big-time gamblers." Cannes? Monte Carlo? Vegas? Not quite. Freeport, in tiny Grand Bahama Island, is not even marked on many maps. Yet Freeport boosters already call...