Word: lente
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...Saigon airfield a steady stream of huge Globemasters unloads tons of electric generators, radar equipment, trucks and Quonset huts. More than 80 H21 Shawnee helicopters at four airbases are serviced by U.S. ground crews, flown by U.S. pilots-including such colorful types as Lieut. Colonel Archie Clapp, who has lent his name to his squadron, "Archie's Angels." The converted aircraft carrier Core steams regularly upriver to Saigon, carrying men, munitions and more helicopters. The 1,000-mile stretch of the South Viet Nam coast, from the 17th Parallel to the Camau Peninsula, is patrolled by ships...
...beginning of the Fall term, the Freshman Dean lent the Jubilee Committee a fairly sizable amount of money to entice various entertainment groups. , while most of the other creditors have been paid, the Committee has no money left to repay the Dean's loans...
Over 150 persons called the central kitchen yesterday to protest that although the dining halls serve hot cross buns for Lent, they have not yet served matzos for Passover...
Last fall Jean went to work with 33 classmates who were already five to seven years ahead of him in France's dead-earnest schooling. In six months, Jean did five years of work in humanities and six years in science - earning good to excel lent grades all the way. In addition to formal school, Jean also studies for six hours a day with five university professors. Next fall he plans to enter Lyons' National Institute of Applied Sciences to become an engineer, though he refuses to be pigeonholed too soon. "I am interested in everything...
...Three of our constant companions," wrote Martin, were "Fatigue, Hunger and Cold"; men ate birch bark, old shoes, pet dogs. "We kept a continual Lent as faithfully as ever any of the most rigorous of the Roman Catholics did and, depend upon it, we were sufficiently mortified." Yet given a small ration of beef and flour and a sack of straw, Martin and his colleagues "felt as happy as any other pigs that were no better off than ourselves." Such wit eased Martin's suffering, but he also had a sharp eye for the ironic moment or the dramatic...