Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found clean clothes, clean sheets on real beds, the best French service, chamber music at lunch, tea dances, swing bands at dinner, concerts, movies, Cokes, local gin and beer. Signs grinned: '"No Saluting." For nothing or for a few francs, they could hire bicycles, sunbathe, play at the Lawn Tennis Club, take American Express tours in the big rolltop busses. There were canoes, pedallo boats and sloops with which to negotiate the blue Mediterranean. Most incredible of all: if any of them got taken drunk, gentle MPs put them gently...
...Veteran diplomat and courtier Tsuneo Matsudaira, 68, resigned as Imperial Household Minister. Ex-Ambassador to Washington and London, father-in-law of the Emperor's brother Prince Chichibu, the suave, gin-drinking, golf-playing elder statesman was regarded as one of the last "moderate" influences around the throne. He was succeeded by ex-Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata, good friend of the militarists...
...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...
...marines stepped ashore with slightly more opposition than they would have had in maneuvers off the coast of California. To say merely that they were bewildered is to gild the lily of understatement. Where was the withering machine-gun fire? Where were the murderous 320-mm. mortars, the gin. rockets? Where were the fanatic Japs? They were not defending the west coast of Okinawa from north of Kadena southward half way to Naha...