Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry a king's nephew. So great was the enthusiasm all around that even Henry Honneybun, a bakery driver who had been the earl's batman during the war, got a rousing cheer when he left for the festivities...
Despite smiles at the concert hall, François-Poncet became so enraged in Berlin that McCloy left, flew back to Paris to see François-Poncet's boss, Premier Henri Queuille. Late getting back to Germany, McCloy landed at Wiesbaden, 45 minutes closer to the Petersberg than Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airfield, and raced to a new High Commission meeting. It lasted 19 hours, from 11 one morning until 6 the next...
Mangoes & Chanel No. 5. The little medieval touch has given the new regime a valuable breather. Some of the country's wounds are healing fast. In Sontay, once a thriving town of 6,000 in the Red River delta, only seven people and one church were left when the French took it from the Communists last November. When I visited Sontay last month, it was largely rebuilt, 5,000 of its people had returned, and in its bustling market, cheerful, slim-hipped women were buying everything from mangoes to Chanel...
...occupied part of Kashmir ever since New Delhi sent troops into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the maharaja's once inviolable polo field, a five-man U.N. commission quietly pulled out of the maharaja's riverside guesthouse and left town. It was bound for Geneva to prepare a report on its failure to win an agreement between India and Pakistan on Kashmir...
Ambassador Lewis Douglas was back in London after the dollar talks, minus the patch he has worn over his left eye since it was snagged by a wind-blown salmon hook last April. He paused on the front stoop of the U.S. embassy in Grosvenor Square to exchange grave greetings with an old family retainer named Reggie...