Word: lam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bacninh, the men of the Legion's 3rd Regiment-the most decorated unit in the French army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring the anchor tattooed on his left arm, and dreaming nostalgically of his years in the navy. Whose navy...
Swathed in a cocoonlike gown of gold lamé, she came wriggling out of the wings like a caterpillar on a hot rock. At the mike, still undulating, she launched into a typical Dandridge patter song called Love Isn't Born, It's Made. Sample...
...Lam. Editor Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...
Married. His Imperial Majesty, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, 31, Shahinshah (King of Kings) of Iran, and Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin...
Like an overdose of champagne (or hemlock), it hits the underpinning of the economy first. Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. Short crops and short fuel send other thousands after them. The greatest holiday in history...