Word: girling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence for blackmail. With an increasing number of businessmen visiting Russia and other Communist countries, the British government has taken public account of this fact. In a pamphlet issued by the Board of Trade, it offers Britons the delicate warning that "a liaison between a visitor and a local girl will not long remain unknown to the local intelligence service. The girl may be acting for that service from the outset...
...handling the KGB was related by British Agent Greville Wynne in his 1967 book Contact on Gorky Street. Returning to his hotel one night, Wynne recalled, he found a "dark, smiling girl" in his bed. Forewarned by British intelligence as to what to do in such circumstances, he left the door open, ran downstairs, and told the clerk that his room had been rented to someone else by mistake. Then he went for a walk...
...frail-looking wooden chair, a boy sat watching them in silence. He wore blue jeans, a blue shirt, a brown vest, and glasses. His shaggy brown hair curled around his ears. The door to the room squeaked open just wide enough for the head of a girl to stick in. From beyond the door came some giggles, and then the distinct Cambridge twang of a high school student floated into the room, "Look, they're playing dead...
Oscar Grass, a senior, was afflicted with rapidly rolling eyeballs when the girl of his dreams asked him for a date. Other male students, upon being asked out, were found involuntarily kicking up their heels, yelling "Zowee...
...that we find frightening rather than funny. Sartre, who was a real-life friend of Vian's, is amusingly satirized as Jean-Sol Partre, the cult idol who enters packed lecture halls on elephant back, crushing his waiting fans. But when Chick, Colin's friend, sacrifices everything, including his girl-friend Alise, in order to buy Partre's work, the joke turns grisly. Chloe dies from a water-lily growing in her lungs: this is both Vian's preposterous parody of the consumptive heroines who litter romantic tradition, and a real tragedy in the context of a world where orchids...