Word: hin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hin Tjio (pronounced Chee-o), 43, now at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., a citizen of The Netherlands and a native of Indonesia. While doing cancer research at the University, of Lund in Sweden, Tjio...
...Galahad. Wham! Whomp! Thunk! Glunk! The Kid in the white satin trunks with the shamrock-green piping is down. The ringside crowd is up and roaring. "Sev-hin, A-yut, Nigh-yen"-the Kid's up again. He's bleeding at the mouth. How much more of this grueling punishment can the Kid take? Well, say another 15 or 20 solid punches right in the kisser. But don't sell the Kid short. He has a heart of gold and a head of lead. When his eyes begin to look like two fried eggs...
...princes-pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum, Red Prince Souphanouvong, and "neutralist"' Prince Souvanna Phouma-meet to form a new government? Boun Oum's man had held out for the royal capital of Luangprabang, but now agreed that the meeting should take place at the village of Hin Heup on the Lik River, where one bank is held by the Royal Laotian Army and the other by the Communist Pathet...
...desperate effort to salvage something, Boun Oum's delegates argued that the princes should confer in the no man's land of the center of the bridge at Hin Heup. This brought wild guffaws from the other side, as one of the neutralist dele gates pointed out that the bridge had been blown up and the princes could not stand in midair. The Boun Oum man came back with the suggestion that a raft be built and anchored in midriver. With a mock-serious air, the neutralist chief delegate drew a lurid picture of the dangers that...
...land near a village called Ban Vang Ky. As a point of pride, the Communist Pathet Lao demanded rather that the two sides meet at Ban Namone. Instead, a Royal Army lieutenant colonel and a Pathet Lao major ran into each other near a place called Ban Hin Heup and agreed to come back next day with some white flags and aides. They did, and agreed to a "theoretical and provisional" ceasefire, leaving the details imprecise. Nonetheless, the Royal Army promptly began trucking its troops back from the front lines just as if the war were over...