Word: lange
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nairobi Airport, the last British combat troops-80 in all- slow-marched through ranks of the native Third Kenya Rifles to the strains of Auld Lang Syne, then were whisked away aboard an R.A.F. transport. That midnight, before 50,000 in a Nairobi stadium, Kenyatta's new presidential stand ard was unfurled-crossed spears super imposed on a tribal shield, flanked by a crowing cock...
...must have been an absolute giggle of an idea. With the elections coming up and all, it would be a hoot to do a sort of Little Me thing, only about the girl who married the President. All the fun people joined in-Peggy Cass, Dody Goodman, Harold Lang, Dagmar, Kaye Ballard, Jacques d'Amboise, Melissa Hayden, Vicki Cummings and lots of others-and everybody got dressed up in the wildest costumes while Cris Alexander took loads of simply outrageous pictures. Pat's manuscript had everybody in stitches. The joke was a good one when Cecil Beaton produced...
...Maldives sound like something that belongs in a salad. Actually, they are an autonomous British protectorate in the middle of the Indian Ocean, consisting of some 2,000 palm-shaded coral islands and reefs, 215 of them inhabited, and they are not quite real. Auld Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most...
...happens, this harsh treatment has not been meted out for monny a year lang syne, but the Scots' ancient law is still on the books. Last week, along with 166 other cobwebbed statutes adopted by the Scottish kingdom before it joined England in 1707, the law was being repealed in the British Parliament...
...result of the weather was London's quietest New Year's Eve in recent memory. Only a few hardy souls gathered in Piccadilly Circus for the traditional singing of Auld Lang Syne. There were 162 arrests, mostly for throwing snowballs at policemen. A Daily Herald columnist discovered another social effect of the snow blitz. In mock horror, he reported that "five total strangers talked to me in the blizzard on the station platform...