Word: forayed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crisis developed almost without warning. The press, which had overplayed a short-lived Communist foray across the waist of Indo-China last December, had underplayed the more recent and more serious worsening of the French position in Indo-China. Washington thought that France had agreed last year to drive for victory. But the agreement was only paper-deep. Paris' heart simply is not in the Indo-China...
Said an Inland Revenue man succinctly: "Capital gains and expense accounts." Capital gains, whether they come from stocks, real-estate deals, or bets on the Derby, are untaxed in heavily taxed Britain. One financier recently made ?200,000 free and clear in three months in a foray into Savoy Hotel stock. The expense-account economy has been brought to a fine degree of urbane perfection. Firms buy their executives limousines with money that would otherwise go to the government. The country house is almost invariably a "farm" which regularly loses deductible money every year...
...fiercest clash came at Karatina, a village north of Nairobi. There. British police, supported by the 7th Battalion of the King's African Rifles, collided head-on with a powerful Mau Mau foray. The terrorists turned and fled, but their leader was shot in the throat. Captured alive he proved an important bag. He was Waruhiu Itote, alias "General China," the elusive desperado whose gangs have long dominated Mt. Kenya. An ex-railroad worker who was in the British army in Burma during World War II, "China"' is almost certainly...
...club last ran a summer camp of this sort in 1951; Bill Putnam and Andrew Kaufman, both '47, led that that group and will also handle this year's foray. According to Francis, the Mountaineering Club hopes to provide such a camp every other summer, in order to make climbing available cheaply to its local partisans...
...somewhat south of Dante's ninth level of hell and his philosophy may grate. But they will be amazed and relieved to go back to the headlines and petty disturbances of man, to wait in the quiet bliss bombs and bars until A.C.D. returns to tell of his next foray. If he bothers to return...