Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than those duck-tailed microphones, Singers Paul Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near General Zanuck's yellow camp chair stood a real U.S. Ranger, on hand to give technical advice. "These guys," he said helpfully, "don't have what it takes...
...venture in triviality" in one issue, the magazine returned to the attack with the revelation that "conservative Catholic circles"-of which Editor Buckley, 35, is the razor-tongued wunder-kind-were muttering "Mater si, Magistra no." At that, the Jesuit weekly America jumped into the fray, proclaiming that the National Review "owes its Catholic readers and journalistic allies an apology." Unapologetically, Career Iconoclast Buckley brushed off the protest with one word: "Impudent...
...spent three months in the Brazilian embassy reported that 97 people were living in the garage and two small servants' rooms. "We received one meal daily, composed of a big spoonful of rice and one of some pottage." Outside, militia patrols delight in firing shots to fray the asylees' nerves. Friends or relatives who come by to wave are roughed up; those who try to bring food are searched and insulted. Every so often the embassy's water is cut off for two or three days at a time...
...Trac, whose husband had been beheaded by the Chinese governor, gathered an army of 80,000 Vietnamese to storm the governor's fort and set up her own kingdom, which lasted for two years. One of Trung Trac's army commanders was a stanch female who went into the fray nine months pregnant, gave birth on the battlefield, then rose to lead her troops in a futile last assault against the avenging Chinese. When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn. For nearly a thousand years, the Annamese armies terrorized neighboring Cambodia and Laos. (Laos...
...unsaid was just what Challe specifically had in mind. He insisted there was no intention of conquering France with paratroops and foreign legionnaires. He only planned to begin a "general offensive" against the F.L.N. in which "total victory" would be speedily achieved, and then he could retire from the fray...