Word: idol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Challenge. That did it. With a flick of his dress gloves, France's first soldier was challenging the authority and assaulting the integrity of France's civilian leaders. The Cabinet could not treat the challenge lightly. Marshal Juin is France's military hero, an idol of its officer corps...
...tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone, badly eroded, whose local name is "The Queen...
...billing sign on the side lit up "Shiva and Her Snake" and the curtains parted before a cardboard idol with green light bulbs for eyes. The orchestra was playing something Arabian when Shiva herself appeared, wearing a mass of gauze and a seven-foot snake. Interest in the balcony heightened as the two undulated around the idol in time to the music. In the next row, the Girl Scout had buried her face in her green cap, whimpering with fear...
...somber light played over Shiva and the reptile as the act swelled to its climax. Sprawling on the steps of the idol with the snake draped sleepily over her, Shiva shimmered the squints of her costume. From the balcony there were howls of approval. Shiva, apparently, was delighted. Disengaging herself from the snake she sprang to her feet, curtsied, and smiled a provocative "More?" at the audience. But before the balcony could respond, the maestro waved her off the stage...
Like many a young pilot, Knoke made an idol of his plane, a Messerschmitt 109 which he called Good Emil. He was so scared and excited on his first mission, a strafing run over the Thames estuary, that he forgot to fire at the target. But he soon tasted blood in Russia, flying alongside Stuka bombers as they chopped up Soviet columns. He was vastly enjoying the war when They-the anonymous, know-nothing They which is GHQ to every operational airman-shipped him back to Germany to patrol the North Sea. There Knoke learned that boredom is the first...