Word: flings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such infamy. Poking fun at Liberace is one thing, but when it goes to the extreme of criticizing the hallowed tradition of mother's love, it's beyond the pale. It would seem that anyone with the proper regard for the Good Neighbor policy would hesitate to fling insults at the judgment and good taste of millions of people of an allied country, who are devoted and ardent admirers of Liberace...
...enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...
...month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars and private trains for a final royal fling. The occasion was the final Dashahara durbar of the fat (300 Ibs.), rich, able, music-loving Maharaja of Mysore, who has ruled his state as rajpramukh since the coming of the republic...
...previous novels of the series, Lewis Eliot has lifted himself from the pit of shabby genteel poverty, taking a fling at law and teaching, and played the good Samaritan to a headstrong younger brother. When the present novel opens in 1938. Eliot is trudging home to a wife with a "schizoid chill." He has married her out of the weakest virtue, pity, but since he himself has never surfaced emotionally, he can bring her no love. In nagging misery, she commits suicide...
Before they got around to answering that question, the labor leaders had a day of routine business meetings and a chance to tour the nearby golf course, swim in Friendship Lake below the administration building, play tennis and shuffleboard (or, like the auto workers' Walter Reuther, have a fling at square dancing on the shuffleboard court), and view the movie Helen of Troy in Dubinsky's $750,000 lakeside theater. Their every want was tended by Unity House's regular staff of 400, plus 50 extras brought in for the occasion...