Word: haig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moll in vintage Chicago style. When Jean-Paul wants blonde Thérèse to rat on a pal, he slugs her, ties her wrists to her ankles, loops a belt around her neck and lashes it to a radiator pipe, gags her, decants a bottle of Haig & Haig over her while she's down, slugs her again. "Now sweetheart, baby, act sensibly," he coos. So she does. Later, the police find poor Therese under her wrecked Renault at the bottom of a cliff...
...young Greeks have emigrated to West Germany to find jobs, and poverty retains its grip on primitive mountain villages. Street peddlers in Athens still haul sponges, bananas and chestnuts-but they now walk beneath glittering neon signs that reveal the internationalization of an increasingly modern economy: IBM, Siemens, Haig & Haig, Diners Club...
Word comes of a wonderful new poisonous shrapnel. Britain's General Douglas Haig is introduced. He orders suicidal advances, losing 1,320,000 men. The general prays to God: "I ask thee for victory before the Americans arrive." A pretty lady sings Keep the Home Fires Burning...
...Britain's giant Distillers Company Ltd. was at a crossroads. Its sales of industrial chemicals were sagging, but its whisky sales (Vat 69, Johnnie Walker,, Haig & Haig, Black & White) were soaring. Deciding not to fight the trend, the company last week chose as its new chairman an old-line whisky man, Ronald S. Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more...
...they are led by donkeys." So they were, as Historian Clark proves in this horrifying account of the early months of World War I. His charges, proved beyond doubt by huge and sickening casualty lists, are that the British commanders-notably Field Marshal Sir John French and General Douglas Haig-overrated the cavalry charge, underrated the machine gun, and stubbornly refused to change outmoded tactics. Clark calls French and Haig mass murderers, and few who read his book will contest the judgment...