Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Berlin, a TIME Corespondent cabled: "Like a swain who cannot bring himself to forget the girl who jilted him, the Russians are still unable to abandon completely the idea of blockading Berlin. Theoretically, rail, road and water traffic between West Germany and Berlin have been open for two months. In fact, hardly a week has gone by since the formal lifting of the blockade without Russian chicanery arbitrarily disrupting services somewhere along the line...
...year later, said Haigh, "I took . . . the father and mother to the same basement, disposing of them in the same way." In February 1948 he killed the Hendersons, an unidentified woman from Hammersmith, a young man in Kensington and a girl "who said her name was Mary...
...village of Mikro Hori, near Karpenisi, is locally renowned for its clear water and beautiful girls. One of the village's brightest jewels was Marianthi Antonopoula, a delicate girl with thick taffy-colored hair. Marianthi now recalls that she hated the "monarcho-fascist" enemies of the "people's democracy." Also, she yearned for adventure and romance. One day, a year ago, she left the village and sought out a battalion of guerrillas who had taken over a nearby monastery...
...simmoritissai (girl guerrillas), Marianthi soon saw that she had a preferred position as Papouas' girl. Because the guerrillas did not like their girl fighters to be incapacitated by pregnancy, a decree of celibacy had been proclaimed. But Papouas and Marianthi seemed to be exempt. The simmoritissai who obeyed the celibacy rule looked at Marianthi askance-or, as the Greek saying goes, with "half an eye"-but they dared not criticize her to her face...
Singer Sarah Vaughan, the "Bop" girl, was at the Chez Maurice; Roger Dann, "the young Maurice Chevalier," was at the Gayety vaudeville house, where Stripteaser Lili St. Cyr had just finished a four-week run. Besides the Gayety, there were strippers at the Roxy, Rockhead's Paradise and the Café St. Michel...