Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great burst of applause. "Mes salutations s'adressent également à mes amis Canadiens qui parlent Français," said Ike. "Je sais que je fais preuve d'une grande témérité en essayant de m'exprimer, si peu soit-il, dans cette langue...
...Capp, creator of "L'il Abner," appeared at a Law School forum last fall on the subject of humor. Capp said at that time that Richard Nixon was the funniest man in the country...
Italy's government and press were horrified at what appeared to be a retreat from the unequivocal declaration of 1948. "This," cried Rome's conservative Il Tempo, "sets off irreparably from the U.S. a block of 47 million inhabitants of one of the most civilized countries in the world [and] . . . opens the rosiest horizons for Malenkov and Togliatti." One Italian newspaper flung a well-remembered phrase back at the U.S. "Stab in the back!" it said...
...allied warplanes roared off for North Korean targets, then were called back to their bases with full bombloads. More than 200 F-86 Sabre jets patrolled Mig Alley for the last time, found no MIG-158 willing to fight. The last plane shot down: a Russian-made IL-12 transport, which might have been carrying some of the Red officials who witnessed the signing at Panmunjom...
First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand...