Word: flings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down comrades, hurling grenades into the Viet Cong bunkers and gunning down the Reds when they tried to escape. Long's men lost only three killed and 27 wounded in the charge, but before the day was out the South Vietnamese had killed 356 of the enemy. Highland Fling. The Americans were getting in their licks too. Up in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division killed 225 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies. B-52 bombers...
...floral varieties. The antic is performed by boys or girls, but always in pairs or a group. As Sue Simms, 18, a senior at Silver Spring, Md.'s Montgomery Blair High School, points out, "You need someone on the other side of the tree in order to fling the dwindling roll back and forth." And there are rules as well as an art to it. Mary Karen Bowen, 16, of Bountiful, Utah, advises: "Make sure you don't break the roll, or it doesn't count." The results, particularly when it rains or snows immediately thereafter...
...here we've had our youthful fling and have settled down to a loving middle age of sorts. That's a good omen for the future of the young'uns down in Connecticut, though we never had their distance problem when we were courting. But all good love stories bring back fond memories, and when Radcliffe brings us our slippers tonight. we'll hold her hand just a little tighter thinking about kid brother and his girl sighing, waving, and squinting at each each other through the blue mist of the Connecticut hills. We know what they're after...
Rich's good old days were often bad: one long round of run, Buddy, run from bill collectors and irate bandleaders. On and off, through romances and rifts, he played with Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Tommy Dorsey (four times) and Harry James (three times), once even took a fling at being a nightclub crooner. Trouble was, Rich had and still has a low regard for bandleaders. "The drummer is the real quarterback of a band," he says. "Hell, Guy Lombardo might just as well be hailing a cab on the bandstand. None of the musicians look...
Influential Style. That hidden art was often overshadowed by Dos Passes' obtrusive style. He devised what he called The Camera Eye-poetically subjective inlays in the raw plain-deal prose, where the novelist had his metrical fling out of earshot of his characters. Another invention was the impressionist profile of contemporary figures, of which the most famous had the echoing refrain: "Wars, machine-gun fire and arson-good growing weather for the House of Morgan." These sketches-of Henry Ford and Big Bill Haywood the Wobbly leader, of Rudolph Valentino and Isadora Duncan-were brilliant in themselves...