Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shortly have a taste of the ballet. They may very likely enjoy it, for they will see nothing dainty or esthetical in Fancy Free, the surprise hit of Manhattan's booming ballet season. It is as lusty a piece of knockabout vaudeville as could be found in the hey-heyday of B. F. Keith...
George Papandreou (rhymes with hey you) had left occupied Athens less than a month ago (TIME, April 24). Premier Sophocles Venizelos had turned out to be a stopgap, bedeviled with mutiny, and he stepped down the minute he caught sight of the dynamic newcomer. Unable to form a cabinet right away, energetic, 56-year-old Mr. Papandreou ruled alone. He uttered such firm, authoritative commands that Cairo Greeks first blinked, then cheered. Said the man from Greece, a one time disciple of Sophocles' father, the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos: "Our watch word shall be one nation, one government...
...swam across the Rapido. Others formed human chains. A sergeant tied wire to a pick, and hurled the pick across the river until it stuck behind a rock. Seven men then pulled themselves across. All the equipment was left behind. A huge German Tommy gunner on the bank shouted: "Hey, Yank, don't you want to surrender?" But he did not fire...
...Hubler, and cites an award of a medal for "diving a plane to a perilously low height." But for prodigality with medals he blames the Army most: "Navy men, viewing the mountains of color and insigne upon the left breast of Army men," often call out sardonically in bars, "Hey, hero, give me a light...
Statement of a Difference. Essential difference between Jane and Joe was pointed out by a Fort Des Moines recruit who was being loaded into an already jampacked Army truck. "Hey, sergeant," she protested, "have a heart, this bus is full." Said the tough male sergeant: "Lady, I been getting 18 men into these trucks and I sure as hell can get 18 WACs in." Wailed the squeezed WAC: "But men are broad in the shoulders...