Word: lamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feather. Now enjoying uneasy asylum in the Dominican Republic, Batista was strolling along Ciudad Trujillo's seafronting Avenida George Washington, minding his own business, when who should come along, astride a motor scooter, but Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan Perón, also on the lam. According to Batista, they chatted about no counterrevolutions, just the weather and other pleasantries. Observed Batista: "Perón has got a good sense of humor and he was very friendly...
...making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government will employ the moral suasion of the Comite de Defense des Interets Nationaux, led by ascetic young army officers, government workers and officials of the royal household. The villages are to be purified by the means of mo lam, or blind wandering minstrels who are traditional Laotian entertainers and have added to their repertory special anti-vice and anti-Communist songs and recitals...
...salute boomed out over Hanoi's Gia Lam Airport, Communist North Viet Nam's frail, wisp-bearded President Ho Chi Minh shuffled up the ramp into an Indonesian Airlines Convair, emerged with his guest of honor, Indonesia's President Sukarno. Burbled Ho, in the halting English he had learned years ago as a cook's helper in London's Carlton Hotel: "The Vietnamese people feel as if they were clasping in their arms 88 million heroic Indonesian people." Replied Sukarno, also in English: "I promise you, in the name of the Indonesian people, to support...
Sybil Overton's husband was on the lam, accused of murder, and her stepdaughter was in cahoots with the police. Then, suddenly, all the problems on her Road of Life were solved: a plane crash polished off the lamister. Mary Noble, that long-suffering Backstage Wife, realized at last that her husband was really in love with her. Nora Drake, psychiatric nurse, finally finished analyzing her boy friend and saw him head home to his ex-wife and family. All last week, soap operas were blowing their last bubbles on CBS; writers were winding up their plots, sending...
...tried to bribe two 16-year-old mail sorters (with $3,000 each) to slip the doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take it on the lam. A warning shot fired over his head ricocheted off a building, hit him in the cheek and landed him in the hospital. Said his wife: "I tried to get him to quit, but all he cared about was that show...