Word: flasks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAIGON--South Vietnamese paratroopers battled communist troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri yesterday and other clashes broke out along the western flask of the northern counteroffensive...
...suit which hadn't seen a pressing in months. He was living on the income from a sinecure given him by a sympathetic Republican governor, in a dingy Back Bay apartment. That night, standing in the front parlor of O'Brien's Funeral Home, reeking of liquor, with a flask filled with John Jameson's in his pocket, he was living testimony to the fact that a Boston Irishman couldn't make it in Brahma society...
Gehlen turned the gentleman's avocation of spying - Sir John Master man still compares it to cricket - into big business. But Hohne and Zolling argue that, despite all his thermos-flask cameras and secret, secret ink, he still couldn't keep up with the times. Forced into retirement in 1968, he sat in his study on Lake Starnberg with a death mask of Frederick the Great looking down and wrote his memoirs (due out later this year) rather like Buffalo Bill after the frontier went thataway. For spying, like everything else, has gone automated...
...monk. He has not been to a movie for 21 months, is almost never seen at parties or restaurants, and has very few friends in Hollywood. On taping days, he lives on little more than milk and honey, or the turkey noodle soup that he carries in a flask everywhere he goes-his life is awash in turkey noodle soup. "I mustn't eat a full meal before taping because I'll be sluggish," he says, "and it'll throw my timing...
...church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation on her broad face as she uncaps the flask to anoint Christ's feet...